Ministry of Labour, Pension System, Family and Social Policy Ministarstvo rada, mirovinskoga sustava, obitelji i socijalne politike
Location of Headquarters
Ministry overview
Formed	31 May 1990
Type	Ministry in the Government of Croatia
Jurisdiction	Croatia
Headquarters	Ulica grada Vukovara 78, Zagreb, Croatia
Employees	610 (2025) [1]
Budget	€10.4 billion (2025 budget) [2]
Website	mrosp.gov.hr
Minister
Currently	Alen Ružić since 20 February 2026

The Ministry of Labour and Pension System, Family and Social Policy of the Republic of Croatia (Croatian : Ministarstvo rada, mirovinskoga sustava, obitelji i socijalne politike) is the ministry in the Government of Croatia which performs administrative and other tasks related to employment policy, regulation of labor relations, labor market and active employment policy, system and policy of pension insurance and relations with trade unions and employers associations in the area of employment relations.

Contents

• Role
• Organization
• List of ministers
• Minister of Labour and Veteran and Disability Issues (1990–1991)
• Ministers of Labour, Social Welfare and Family (1991–1993)
• Ministers of Labour and Social Welfare (1993–2003)
• Ministers of Labour and Pension System (2011–2020)
• Ministers of Labour and Pension System, Family and Social Policy (2020–present)
• Officials
• Minister
• State Secretaries
• Directors of departments
• References
• External links

Role

The Ministry of Labour and Pension System, Family and Social Policy performs administrative and other tasks related to: ^[3]

• employment policy,
• regulation of employment relations;
• labor market and active employment policy;
• programs of job retraining and increasing employability;
• unemployment records and employment assistance;
• pension insurance system and policy;
• social partnership and relations with trade unions and employers' associations in the field of labor relations, labor market and employment;
• labor status of Croatian citizens employed abroad and matters related to their return and employment in the country;
• labor status of foreign citizens employed in the Republic of Croatia;
• improvement of the occupational safety and health system;
• international cooperation in the field of labor and employment;
• care for persons and families who do not have sufficient means to meet basic living needs or who need assistance to eliminate the causes of social vulnerability;
• establishing a network of social welfare institutions and a network of activities and coordinating their work and providing professional assistance;
• conducting administrative, inspection and expert supervision over the work of social welfare institutions, local and regional self-government units, chambers, permanent collection of humanitarian aid, humanitarian actions, other legal and natural persons providing social services and over the performance of nanny activities;
• deciding on the establishment, termination and status changes of social welfare institutions;
• disseminating and analysing data on beneficiaries in the social welfare system and preparing statistical reviews and reports;
• promoting the rights of persons with disabilities, improving their quality of life and developing non-institutional forms of care for persons with disabilities;
• improving legislative regulations for the purpose of improving the quality of life of beneficiary groups under the jurisdiction of the Ministry and developing social welfare services for their needs, developing non-institutional forms of care for the elderly, performing other tasks of caring for the elderly that are not placed under the jurisdiction of other bodies;
• protecting victims of human trafficking;
• protecting refugees and ensuring the integration of asylum seekers and persons under subsidiary protection, protecting children and young adults with behavioural problems and including them in everyday life after a longer stay in an educational institution;
• rehabilitation and resocialization of addicts and prevention of all forms of addiction;
• administrative and professional tasks related to foster care and adoption;
• marriage and marital relations and special protection of families in which mutual relations are disrupted;
• protection from domestic violence;
• mutual relations between parents and children;
• protection of children whose parents live separately, protection of children without appropriate parental care, promotion of responsible parenthood, maintenance and care of family members;
• promotion of the development of community work programs, development and affirmation of volunteerism and the work of citizens' associations that support parents, families, children, children with developmental disabilities and the elderly and all socially vulnerable groups of the population;
• promotion and establishment of counseling centers for children, parents, children with developmental disabilities, the elderly and victims of domestic violence;
• study and research of contemporary problems of families, children, children with developmental disabilities and the elderly and provision of preventive and therapeutic assistance.

The Ministry participates in the preparation of programs and projects and the implementation of projects from the European Union programs and other forms of international assistance.

Furthermore, it participates with the ministry responsible for managing state property in the management and disposal of shares and business interests of companies that constitute state property owned by the Republic of Croatia, and in relation to companies that predominantly engage in activities within the prescribed jurisdiction of this Ministry.

Organization

The Ministry has a total of 610 staff (as of 2025), working in the following departments: ^[4]

List of ministers

Officials

Currently serving officials at the Ministry: ^{[5] [6]}

References

External links

• Official website (in Croatian)