The Local Economic Development Area of the La Laguna City Council begins 2023 with an extensive program of actions to promote employability and entrepreneurship, and with its first Strategic Plan for the promotion and local economic development.
Some actions that want to take a new leap compared to those already carried out in 2022 and that are supported by a very positive evolution of employment data that, last December, placed the municipality as the first of the four Canary Islands cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants (the so-called G4) in job stability, with the best employment data in the last 14 years and year-on-year growth in permanent hiring of close to 200%, as highlighted by the Consistory itself.
The Councilor for the Area, Aitami Bruno, explained that “the analysis carried out with the technical team reveals that La Laguna is the G4 municipality in which the largest increase in permanent contracting has been registered in the last year, with a growth of 192.08%”. “After two years of difficulties marked by the pandemic, we are registering a historic drop in temporary employment, while employment and permanent contracts are growing, data that is especially significant in an economy as closely linked to the service sector as ours is,” he highlighted. .
The mayor pointed out that, according to the latest data, “La Laguna has registered a monthly improvement of 1.6% and 5.63% in annual terms, falling below the barrier of 15,000 unemployed people for the first time in almost three decades” .
