Strategic significance is being attached to the Belarusian Labor and Social Security Ministry in the new five-year period, Deputy Prime Minister Natalya Petkevich said as she introduced new minister Andrei Lobovich to the ministry’s staff on 16 January.
Outlining priority tasks for the ministry, Natalya Petkevich noted that the head of state, through decisions made yesterday, clearly demonstrated the increasing role being assigned to the Labor and Social Security Ministry in the current five-year period. “This ministry is acquiring key, strategic significance. This means there must also be a certain transformation in the ministry’s functions,” Natalya Petkevich said.
According to her, the ministry must focus on the ideology and economics of labor and social security. “Today, we cannot afford to focus solely on post-regulation. The most important thing to concentrate on now is building a strategic vision for the development of the social-labor sector and social security. The Labor and Social Security Ministry must be a full-fledged regulator in the areas under its jurisdiction,” the deputy prime minister said.