The Canary archipelago will have this year 171 million euros to carry out active employment policies, as agreed in the last Sectoral Conference on Employment and Labor Affairs.
The figure is the sum of two items, one of 157,279,193 euros charged to the budget of the State Public Employment Service (SEPE), eleven million more than last year, and 13,832,870 euros charged to the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism (MRR), the main tool to channel the funds allocated by the European Union for economic recovery.
The Sectoral Conference on Employment also agreed, for the first time, the budgetary concession on an exceptional basis of 521,419 euros to the Canary Islands to finance the upcoming development of various occupational risk prevention actions, among other issues.
The current allocation from the sectoral conference to the autonomous administration is in addition to previous contributions for active policies charged to state funds such as the Canary Islands Comprehensive Employment Plan (PIEC), amounting to 45 million.
The contribution of the PIEC plus the allocation of the second edition of the specific plan for La Palma after the volcanic eruption, worth 30 million, brings the total to almost 250 million in labor matters during 2023 for the archipelago.
