By ACN
The Minister of Employment and Social Affairs of the Government of the Canary Islands, Marisa Zamora, stated this Friday that 72 percent of the students/workers who carry out their training through workshop schools, trade houses and employment workshops access the labor market in less than a year.
This statement was made by the regional head of Employment and Social Affairs during her visit to the building rehabilitation workshop school that is being carried out in the municipality of Güímar (Tenerife), an employment initiative that offers training to a total of 32 young people, under 25 years of age, in the specialties of masonry, carpentry, plumbing and locksmithing.
During the visit, Zamora was able to learn first-hand about the work carried out by the students in each of the modules and verify the knowledge they have acquired during the last twelve months, and whose training will conclude in November 2006.
The Head of Employment pointed out that this type of training initiatives for employment allow people with special difficulties in accessing the labor market to "receive specialized training that makes it easier for them to find quality employment in accordance with market demand."
In this sense, she continued, the Canary Islands Government is committed to making available to citizens different resources aimed at facilitating the labor normalization of those who for one reason or another are unemployed, especially for those groups who for personal, social or physical or mental limitations have enormous difficulties for labor insertion: long-term unemployed, unemployed without work experience, unemployed, disabled, ex-convicts, immigrants, etc.
BUDGETARY ITEMS FOR TRAINING
To this end, she recalled, in the budgets for the year 2006 a budgetary item has been allocated for training amounting to 58,337,509 euros and for labor insertion, to 82,701,272 euros.
For Zamora, the workshop schools and employment workshops are projects of great importance since, she assured, a large number of students/workers are self-employed and create companies, generating employment in turn. "In fact, last year about twenty business initiatives were launched by the students/workers who had passed through the workshop schools and trade houses," she added.
During the current year, almost 5,000 unemployed people have received specialized training through the workshop schools, trade houses and employment workshops.
The Workshop Schools and Trade Houses are public employment programs aimed at unemployed young people between 16 and 24 years old, while the Employment Workshops are aimed at people over 25 years old.
From the first month, the student/worker has an employment contract and a salary with a maximum subsidy of 1.5 times the minimum interprofessional salary, in addition to participating in a work or provision of a service of public utility and social interest.
The training is aimed at professional branches of great specialization, increasingly opening up to new employment niches such as aquaculture, home help or monitor for people with disabilities.