29 May, 2019
Ljubljana

Representatives of EPEKA, Soc.Ent. will attend the National Conference on the Eradication of Precarious Work.

 

The key messages of the National Conference on Ending Precarious Work will be threefold:

  1. To see how the consequences of precarious work are understood by ministers. Not in general, but within their own sector.
    5 ministers, the President of the National Assembly and 4 Secretaries of State will be present.
  2. To bring together the solutions as seen by the profession – more than 35 professors and researchers will be on the panel.
  3. To find out how business is putting the end of precarious work in the context of social responsibility and sustainable development. The Minister of Economy, the President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the President of BTC and the Vice-Mayor of MOL will be on the panel.

 

The event will take place at the Faculty of Social Sciences and is co-organised by:

  • Institute for Precariat Studies,
  • Faculty of Social Sciences,
  • Faculty of Economics and
  • Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Law.

 

PROGRAMME:

 

  • 9.00 – 10.00, opening of the conference:

Črt Poglajen – Organizer, Director of IZSP

Dr. Monika Kalin Golob – Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Dr. Metka Tekavčič – Dean of the EF

Dr. Grega Strban – Dean of PF

Dr. Zdravko Kačič – Rector of the University of Maribor

mag. Andrej Poglajen – IZSP

 

  • 10.00 – 11.00, Precariousness and the State

mag. Ksenija Klampfer – Minister of Labour, Family and Social Affairs

Dr Jernej Pikalo – Minister of Education, Science and Sport

Andreja Katič – Minister of Justice

Rudi Medved – Minister of Public Administration

Eva Štravs Podlogar – State Secretary, Ministry of Economic Development and Technology

Dr Anja Kopač – Representative of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia

Jadranko Grlić – Chief Labour Inspector

mag. Dejan Židan – President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia

 

  • 11.30 – 14.50, expert discourse

Researchers, professors, representatives of civil society

 

  • 15.00 – 16.30, Economy, social responsibility and ending precarious work

Keynote speakers:

Dr. Danilo Türk – former President of the Republic of Slovenia,

Dr. Metka Tekavčič – Dean of the EF,

Dr. Aleksandra Kanjuo Mrčela – full professor and researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities.

Participants in the round table:

Zdravko Počivalšek – Minister of Economic Development and Technology,

Boštjan Gorjup – President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry,

Jože Mermal – President of the Board of BTC,

Dejan Crnek – Vice-Mayor of the Municipality of Ljubljana.

 

The Association EPEKA, Soc. Ent., is supported by: