SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 1 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The President of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, and the Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, have signed this Wednesday in Santa Cruz de La Palma the agreement for the transfer of the 2022 funds of the Comprehensive Employment Plan of the Canary Islands (PIEC ).
Also present at the official act were, among other authorities, the Minister of Economy, Knowledge and Employment of the Canary Executive, Elena Máñez, and the Secretary of State for Labor and Social Economy, Joaquín Pérez.
With this Plan, endowed with 42 million euros, the Public State Employment Service (SEPE), dependent on the Ministry of Labor, makes available to the Archipelago the necessary resources to develop active employment policies and combat the negative effects on the employment of the health crisis and the eruption of the La Palma volcano, as well as making it possible to reverse structural deficits in the labor market of the Archipelago.
During his speech, Ángel Víctor Torres highlighted that today a Comprehensive Employment Plan for the Canary Islands is being signed, which is already “consolidated” in the General State Budgets (PGE) and that, as happened last year, it does so by bringing forward the deadlines , allowing the hiring and also the training of up to 5,000 people in the eight islands.
Torres pointed out that to the 42 million euros of the PIEC of 2022 must be added the 63 million that the State Government has allocated to the Extraordinary Employment and Training Plan of La Palma due to the crisis caused by the volcanic eruption, which will serve to ” help palliate, refloat, move forward and give a future” to the Island.
The president explained that this extraordinary employment plan has already allowed nearly 2,000 people to be hired on La Palma and has managed to maintain the state of social balance on the island, after the economic decline after the volcanic eruption caused a resurgence “tremendous” number of unemployed people.
For her part, the Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, stressed the importance of the commitments that appear in the Comprehensive Employment Plan for the Canary Islands for this year and, in addition, that they be deployed with “maximum agility and efficiency” , in accordance with “very ambitious” objectives.
Thus, he indicated that the PIEC of 2022 wants to focus actions on the diversification of employment in the Canarian productive fabric; improve the qualification of the active population of the Islands, allowing their versatility and also inter-island mobility, and promote stability in employment, an objective, the latter, for which he requested the commitment of all administrations and social agents because ” to have stable jobs is to have decent lives”.
Likewise, the minister pointed out that this program will serve especially to fight against the submerged economy; to strengthen the commitment to comprehensive training and qualification, especially of young people; develop unique actions aimed at people who are in a situation of long-term unemployment and also at people who are most vulnerable to employment.
Yolanda Díaz wanted to make it clear that the Ministry is going to continue betting on the Canary Islands because “it has needs that make them unique”. Lastly, she wished she could one day visit the Islands and say that she can do without tools like the one she signed today
LA PALMA EMPLOYMENT PLAN.
With regard to the Extraordinary Plan for Employment and Training of La Palma, the Minister of Labor explained that employment plans have already been awarded for a total amount of 44.3 million euros and have allowed the hiring of 1,671 people who “today have a chance of life.”
Yolanda Díaz explained that the measures deployed have been grouped around different plans that have tried to permeate the areas most affected by the eruption, such as the Employment Plan for El Paso, with the hiring of 140 people; the Reconstruction Plan for the affected areas of the Aridane Valley, with the hiring of 218 people; the Employment Plan for the island of La Palma, with the hiring of 257 people, or the La Palma Volcano Emergency Employment Plan, with the hiring of 865 people.
He commented that aid has also been developed through the Ministry of Economy, Knowledge and Employment of the Government of the Canary Islands to employed persons affected by ERE or direct subsidies by the Cabildo de La Palma in support of the self-employed and SMEs.
Díaz stated that these actions have made it possible to generate a virtuous economic circle of protection of the island economy, providing work and resources to many families, while at the same time betting on the accompaniment and assistance of relocated people, cleaning tasks, repairs and a infinity of actions in favor of his community.
