We have 330,000 jobless, including 130,000 young people, and we have to work on creating jobs, Mrsic said in Jasenovac.
He said the problem of the Croatian pension system was that only 18 per cent of people retired at 65 and with 40 years of service.
We have more than 27 per cent of people who have disability retirement and the goal is to see how many of them can work and at which jobs, so that they can be reappointed or continue working in the same company at another job, said the minister.
He said the state would apply those measures, attempting to keep those people employed through the Disabled Rehabilitation Fund and aid to companies, so that they could have better pensions.
That's not a new measure nor an announcement of the extension of the retirement age, but a state measure to enable people to work as long as they can, instead of forcing them into disability retirement, he said.