The discussions among the public on unemployment, lack of jobs and low wages don’t stop. Whereas President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan promised in his election program, “The job should look for the man,” which means to have an effective labor market that will solve the problem of structural unemployment.
Did the President of the Republic of Armenia keep his promise in this regard, and in what situation are concrete fields? www.aravot.am got the answers to these questions during a conversation with representatives of different fields.
Sculptor Levon Tokmajyan said during a conversation with us: “Our job basically is to find work for ourselves or they know us and order a sculpture. However, life should improve, people should live better, in order to afford extravagance and luxury. However, they live from hand to mouth. It is not a problem that can be solved overnight. We cannot solve the problems of just one family, how should Serzh Sargsyan solve the issue of unemployment in a whole republic. According to rational judgment, if he is not there, who will do that? Everyone becomes someone else, changes when he assumes an office. It will happen, but it happens at a very slow pace, I would like it to be faster.”
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Publicist Karine Hakobyan, a member of the Support for Armenian Syrians and Their Repatriation initiative group, in her turn, thinks: “That the job looks for and finds the man doesn’t happen by itself. One needs more than expressing a desire to do that, one should take steps, create respective jobs, and the appropriate workforce will be formed. It is a nice definition, but that job should be there, and the state is to create those jobs. Being a nation with scientific potential, we should have taken a path that should have already created jobs; opportunities for economic development should have been offered. All that is the state’s responsibility. If the state had performed its duties, there had been jobs, the emigration would have shrunk, since people leave, mainly because there is no job, they cannot find a professional job.”
In response to our question whether the president had kept his promise or not, Ms. Hakobyan said: “He certainly didn’t keep his promise. The government should have made moves in that direction, i.e. billions that are in the hands of some businessmen, the state should create conditions for making investments and creating respective jobs. If it is not done, jobs are not created, and the job doesn’t find the man.”
Tatev HARUTYUNYAN
