Business training courses for the unemployed to promote employment in Belarus

This study focuses on the problem of promoting employment for the unemployed by government agencies in the framework of the employment policy. The aim of the study is to analyze the social and legal conditions for organizing and conducting training courses on entrepreneurship for the unemployed, provided for by the program of measures to promote employment of the unemployed population in Belarus. The subject area of the research is the social and legal conditions for organizing and conducting training courses on entrepreneurship as one of the measures in the field of employment promotion. The goal was realized by the methods of secondary analysis of official statistical information, formal-logical, formal-legal, hermeneutic methods. The main results of the study are the evaluation of the ongoing activities in the form of training courses on the basics of doing business to promote employment of the unemployed through the organization of their own business, as well as the development of recommendations to improve the existing practice in the organization and conduct of training courses for the unemployed. The conclusions of the study are that it is necessary to carry out further measures in the field of organizational assistance to the unemployed in organizing certain types of economic activity in the form of ensuring the availability of training courses on the basics of entrepreneurial activity for the unemployed through the possibility of forming smaller training groups; expanding the practice of distance, blended and online learning.