The footwear industry has traditionally gone through two very different production periods, namely autumn-winter and spring-summer. For practical purposes, this means that there are periods in between when activity is significantly reduced and in some cases even paralyzed. However, the new labor reform, criticized by industrialists in recent months, has become a real headache for the sector. especially after Instruction from the Ministry of Labor, which warns companies that permanent and non-permanent employees should be regular permanent workers if they are unemployed for less than 60 days or 20% of the annual working day.HE, which deprives the industry of a tool it deems essential to weather the storm. With this in mind, Generalitat chairman Ximo Puig decided to seek alliances with employers and unions to avoid the impact of his new fixed-discontinuous regulation.
In this sense, Consell’s president will be meeting with social agents shortly, and what he’s proposing is to take advantage of production cuts to provide education.It will involve cooperation between the central Executive and the regional government, which should provide the necessary resources.
“It’s about upgrading employees’ skills as well as training and updating their knowledge,” Puig argued during his visit to the Micam shoe fair in Milan this Wednesday. It brings together one hundred Spanish companies, 43 from the province and 33 from Elche..
The Consell president highlighted the good moment the industry is going through, but felt it necessary to seek to consolidate the shoe’s position and increase its competitiveness by advancing in digitalization and professionalisation. That’s why, after talks on Monday with Rosana Perán and Marian Cano, presidents of the national employers’ association FICE and regional association Avecal, Ximo Puig said: Emphasizing that continuous-non-permanent contract is essential for companies, he defended the importance of providing flexibility and security in working relations..
«Specifying some of the months of no activity for training can improve active policies. “Puig will contribute resources so that more stability can be determined during this time, which in other cases must be paid for by the State,” he said. According to that, Dedicating this time to education will improve the education of the workforce, particularly in topics related to robotics and technologies and digitalization in general..
In parallel, Consell’s chairman announced a new Strategic Plan for Valencia Industry, which will be presented in the fall of this year and will include a special plan for footwear.
In the first phase of the Elche Learning Factory project
The Learning Factory project, which will be located in the old Elche Post Office building and will serve education on enabling technologies, may be implemented in a short time. This was announced by the head of the Generalitat on Tuesday. In this context, he reminded that the project that will enable both university and vocational education by adapting it to the needs of the footwear industry in a much more flexible way is already in the first phase.