The Cabildo of Lanzarote, through the Employment Area, and in collaboration with the Arrecife City Council, presented this Friday morning the Municipal Employment Plan corresponding to the period 2024-2025, an initiative in which the Island Institution finances the hiring in the seven municipalities, through the signing of agreements that promote the labor insertion and training of unemployed people, with special attention to those over 40 years of age.
At the event, held in the Historical Archive of Arrecife, the president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort, the mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, and the councilor of Employment, Maciot Cabrera, welcomed the new workers who began their tasks on March 1. Specifically, the agreement between the Cabildo and the City Council allocates 644,550 euros to the hiring of 35 people, including cleaning and beautification laborers, administrative assistants, technical project engineers, technical architects, lawyers, social workers and leisure and free time monitors, among others.
The president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort, highlighted that these agreements signed on the island by the Cabildo and the seven local councils, represent an investment of 1.5 million euros, allowing the hiring of 101 people in unemployment in Lanzarote and La Graciosa. "With this investment we continue to promote employment and training, especially with those groups that find it more difficult to access the labor market. We are not only generating employment, but we are also providing participants with tools that will allow them to improve their long-term employability. Hopefully during these six months, these people will find greater job stability. We want this step through the employment plan to serve as an impetus to find a stable job," said the island president.
The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, stressed that "Arrecife leads the decline in unemployment in the capitals of the Canary Islands." And he remarked that "there is a gap in achieving the labor reinsertion of people over 40 years of age. For this, the City Council has hired 35 unemployed people, with these profiles, to ensure that they can continue in the labor market," emphasized Yonathan de León.
Employment and training
For his part, Maciot Cabrera thanked the Cabildo for the financing of said Plan "which is a new example of the firm commitment that the Department of Employment and Local Development Agency have been making to the employability and training of the people hired", and encouraged its participants to "contribute to Arrecife continuing to grow as a city through the provision of effective services".
The Minister of Employment of the Cabildo, Jesús Machín Tavío, has explained on several occasions that these municipal employment plans "not only provide a job opportunity, but, as a novelty this year, incorporate a training component to provide participants with skills in digital skills, languages and personal development, thus improving their future prospects".
The Municipal Employment Plan 2024-2025 "demonstrates the commitment of the Cabildo of Lanzarote to the generation of employment and the strengthening of the labor skills of the population, contributing to the economic and social development of the island".