State – profit institutions that are to help people find employment
The Labor Force Employment Organization (OAED) is a legal entity governed by public law based in Athens and under the supervision of the Minister of Labor, Social Security and Social Solidarity.
The purpose of the OAED is to implement government policy on employment and the fight against unemployment, to strengthen and facilitate the integration of the country’s human resources into the labor market, unemployment insurance, the promotion of vocational education and training and its linkage with the employment, intellectual and social development of the workforce and its families, granting benefits for housing protection and helping to organize it and its action in order to improve its standard of living. It also participates in the implementation of the National Reform Program and can implement and participate, in accordance with the guidelines of the Ministry of Labor, Social Security and Social Solidarity, in programs deriving from the National Reform Program.