Canary Islands receive 42 million from Comprehensive Employment Plan to combat health crisis and volcano effects

The official law also included, among other officials, the Minister of Economy, Information and Employment of the Canary Rulers. Elena Manezand Minister of State for Labor and Social Economy, Joaquin Perez.

With this With a budget of 42 million euros, State Public Employment Service (SEPE), Subordinate to the Ministry of Labour, it provides the Archipelago with the necessary resources. develop active employment policies and combat the negative effects and explosion of the health crisis on employment La Palma volcanoAs well as making it possible to reverse the structural deficits in the archipelago’s labor market.

In his speech, Angel Víctor Torres stressed that this Wednesday, a Comprehensive Employment Plan for the Canary Islands, which is already “consolidated” in the General Government Budgets (PGE), was signed and, as last year, he did so with anticipation. Deadlines allowing employment and training of up to 5,000 people across eight islands.

Torres pointed out that we should add 63 million Euros to the 42 million Euros of the 2022 PIEC. Dedicated by the State Government to the La Palma Extraordinary Employment and Education Plan due to the crisis caused by the volcanic eruption, “help lighten, refloat, move forward and give the island a future”.

The President explained that this extraordinary employment scheme has already allowed about 2,000 people to be hired on La Palma and has managed to maintain a state of social stability on the island after the economic downturn following the volcanic eruption caused a “massive” resurgence. unemployed people.

For his part, the Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz highlighted the importance of the commitments included in the Canary Islands’ Comprehensive Employment Plan for this year. and also that they are deployed with “maximum agility and efficiency” in line with “very ambitious” goals.

Thus, he stated that the 2022 PIEC wanted it. Actions focused on diversification of employment in the Canary productive fabric; To improve the qualifications of the active population of the islands, to allow their versatility as well as inter-island mobility, and to promote stability in employment, the second aim is one for which it demands the commitment of all governments and social agents, because “having stable jobs is living a decent life“.

Likewise, the minister drew attention to the fact that this program will especially serve to fight against the bankrupt economy; strengthen the commitment to comprehensive education and qualifications, especially of young people; to develop unique actions aimed at people in long-term unemployment, as well as the most vulnerable to employment.

Yolanda Díaz wanted to make it clear that the Ministry will continue to bet on the Canary Islands because “They have needs that make them unique”. Finally, he wished that one day he could visit the Islands and say that instruments like the one signed today could be dispensed with.

Employment Plan for La Palma

Regarding La Palma’s Extraordinary Employment and Education Plan, the Minister of Labour’s employment plans have already been awarded for a total of 44.3 million euros, and 1,671 people who “have a chance to live today” were allowed to be hired.

Yolanda Díaz explained that the measures implemented are grouped around different plans that seek to penetrate the areas most affected by the blast, such as the El Paso Employment Plan, which employs 140 people; Reconstruction Plan for the affected areas of the Aridane Valley, where 218 people were recruited; The Employment Plan for the island of La Palma, which recruited 257 people, or the La Palma Volcano Emergency Employment Plan, which recruited 865 people.

He also noted that assistance has been developed through the Ministry of Economy, Information and Employment of the Government of the Canary Islands to help employees affected by ERE or direct subsidies provided by the Cabildo de La Palma to support self-employed and SMEs.

Díaz noted that these actions make it possible to create a virtuous economic environment that preserves the island’s economy, providing jobs and resources to many families, and also the escort and assistance of the movers, cleaning works, repairs and an endless array of actions in favor of the community.