The President of the Council of Tenerife announces a new subsidy to companies to encourage the employment of vulnerable people. There will be a total of two million euros to finance 90% of the Minimum Interprofessional Salary (SMI), currently established at 1,050 euros, for a period of six months, up to a maximum of two people hired per company. Martín revealed it in the framework of the meeting held at the Fairgrounds to distinguish 40 signatures for their involvement in the job placement of people with the most difficulties, organized by the Red Cross. They are essential collaborators of the Neighborhoods for Employment: Stronger Together program. The call for this new line of aid will start in June.
Martín assessed this initiative: “Initially we have a budget of two million euros that may be increased throughout the year, depending on the response of the companies.” The president added that priority will be given to small and medium-sized companies and to the hiring of those people who have more difficulties of insertion, among other criteria.
The Cabildo de Tenerife granted recognition yesterday to 40 companies on the Island for their involvement in the labor insertion of people with difficulties and the most vulnerable groups, through the program Neighborhoods for Employment: Together stronger than in 2022 facilitated access a job to 1,144 unemployed.
business representatives
Pedro Martín was accompanied by the Minister of Employment, Socioeconomic Development and Foreign Action, Carmen Luz Baso. More than a hundred business representatives also attended, as well as entities participating in the program – Don Bosco Foundation, Diocesan Caritas, Spanish Red Cross, University Foundation and Sinpromi – coordinated by the Foundation for Training, Employment and Business Development ( Fifede), dependent on the Cabildo.
Pedro Martín had an impact on “the impulse that the Cabildo has given to the Barrios por el Empleo program, with which in 2022 we have achieved record numbers of insertion and participation.” He highlighted in this sense that it is due “to the work of more than a hundred professionals linked to the project.” The other fundamental pillar of success is, he stresses, “the great commitment obtained from the companies, the facilitators that make it possible for people to get a job.”
In his journey through the development of the initiative, the president argued that “there are already more than 1,100 companies that already collaborate with the Cabildo de Tenerife so that many people who do not have training can acquire it and so that others can access non-labor practices ». This means, he explains, “thereby improving their chances of accessing a job.”
The president of Tenerife especially thanked the work of the 40 companies that “every year, and continuously for the last four, have included at least one person participating in Barrios por el Empleo in their workforce.”
employment niches
The island president also explained that from the Cabildo “we are working on a second edition of the training program on Employment Niches to train unemployed people in areas and activities demanded by companies.” He recalled that “for this link between supply and demand there is no regulated training on the Island to date.” Those new fields with many options to get a job have to do with aeronautics, the blue economy, the technology sector or renewable energy.
In this context, the counselor Carmen Luz Baso stressed the importance of «continue to strengthen the collaboration of all the agents, companies, institutions and entities of the third sector, to continue with the improvement of the professional qualification of the unemployed». He stressed the need to develop in parallel “transformative employment policies that allow responding to the needs of companies and society as a whole.”
Likewise, Baso also highlighted the work of the companies that collaborate with Barrios por el Empleo and stressed “their firm commitment to improving employability, especially of the most vulnerable groups.”
The Barrios por el Empleo program was born in 2015. It offers comprehensive support for job placement to unemployed people and especially sensitive groups through the 27 service points open throughout the Island. Up to now, it has provided services in its eight years of activity to 33,577 people. In addition, it was possible for 7,423 participants to find a job and there has been the collaborative participation of 1,156 companies. Stronger together.
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