Ljubljana, 03 April (STA) - The coronavirus crisis has started to take a toll on the unemployment situation in Slovenia and what had been a favourable trend until recently has reversed. The number of people registered as unemployed grew by 0.5% to 77,855 in March compared to February, a 1.7% increase year-on-year.

Ljubljana, 02 April (STA) - The supervisors of NLB okayed on Thursday the proposal of the management board to convene a shareholders meeting for 15 June. The country's leading bank, which was privatised last year, announced shareholders would vote on a proposal that the entire EUR 228.04 million in distributable profit remain undistributed for the time being.

Ljubljana, 02 April (STA) - Telekom Slovenije, the majority state-owned telecoms incumbent, posted a group net profit of EUR 1.2 million for 2019, a fraction of the EUR 33.3 million it recorded a year before, largely due to a one-off payment over a now dissolved media joint venture.

On Thursday the Slovenian parliament passed a set of laws aimed at reducing the economic impact of the coronavirus crisis. Measures include financial compensation for temporary lay-offs and deferrals of loan repayments and tax duties for companies.

Slovenia is among the countries with the highest share of women in managerial positions. According to data published on March 8th, 44 percent of the managerial positions in Slovenia are held by women. Only four other EU members have a higher percentage, while in the entire EU just over one third of managers are women.

Slovenia has a new center-right government as of March the 13th, which comes after the resignation of previous prime minister Marjan Šarec in January.