Entitlement to payments from the Guarantee Fund is granted to those workers who lost their jobs due to the initiation of bankruptcy proceedings, forced settlement or liquidation of a commercial company from the court register under the provisions of the Financial Operations, Insolvency Proceedings and Compulsory Dissolution Act. In 2002 a provision was still in force requiring employees to have been employed without interruption with the same employee for at least three months prior to their termination (permanent or fixed-term employment, not contract employment). The revised Act on the Public Guarantee and Maintenance Fund of the Republic of Slovenia (the Act) brought about changes in this field, which entered into force in 2003. This means that as of then even those workers who had been employed with an employer for less than three months enjoy the same rights. In addition to this workers who want to claim entitlements under the Act are required to file their claims within the deadlines and in the manner stipulated by the Financial Operations, Insolvency Proceedings and Compulsory Dissolution Act or as stipulated by labour legislation.