Every ten days I ask the Croatian Employment Service (HZZ) to send me new data, and the latest figures I have received show that there were 296,438 unemployed at the end of May, the premier said, adding that 30 percent of those who had found a job since April were seasonally employed.
Speaking of the implementation of the economic recovery plan, Kosor said that all measures must be carried out, without losing momentum.
She recalled that the government had sent to parliament a new labour bill, repudiating as untrue statements in the public and in some political circles that the new bill would cancel collective agreements.
The government is not going to revoke collective agreements but is rather trying to make collective bargaining in the new circumstances more successful, Kosor said, explaining that "it is not the same to negotiate when Gross Domestic Product rises five or six percent and when it falls five or six percent".
"We just want to adjust the labour legislation to real living conditions," the premier said.
She said she had invited trade unions to a meeting next week.
Commenting on illiquidity, she said that public companies' arrears now totalled HRK 450 million.
We expect to regulate this system by the end of the month, she said.
For the first time in Croatia's history, legislation on fiscal responsibility is being drawn up, and it must be ready before the elaboration of the state budget for 2011, she said.
The cabinet today also adopted a strategy for regional development from 2011 to 2013.
Kosor recalled that the Croatian Chamber of Commerce would open its branch in Moscow on 19 June and that she would attend the inauguration ceremony.
"On that occasion I will again meet with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin," the PM said.