The Lanzarote Business Confederation (CEL), through the ‘Employability Lanzarote 24/255’ project, which concludes this April, achieved the employment of a total of 57 unemployed people belonging to groups with difficult access, through direct subsidies to companies on the island.
Half a hundred companies benefited from these grants depending on the group to which the unemployed person belongs. The initiative, subsidized by the Employment Department of the Island Council of Lanzarote, through the Canary Islands Development Fund (FDCAN), contributes to the financing of companies and encourages the employability of groups with difficult access such as long-term unemployed, people over 45 years of age, vulnerable women, among others.
The president of the Lanzarote Business Confederation, Beatriz Salazar, expressed her satisfaction with the results of the project, which directly helps companies to make hiring possible. “This measure allows an important boost to the hiring of groups of people who have greater barriers when it comes to getting an employment contract, which contributes to boosting employment and social inclusion,” she explains.
She also adds that “the support is essential for companies to be encouraged to be part of this project, which in turn have our support and advice.” She also recalls that the project offers a job guidance service aimed at all people in a situation of unemployment in Lanzarote and who are in the process of actively seeking employment, this being completely free.
Hiring
Of the total number of people hired, 25 of them belonged to the group of people over 45 years of age, with disabilities, etc. In addition, another 20 to the group of women with their first job and 12 to that of men between 16-45 years of age with a first job without training.
Distributed by sex, 24 hires were for women and 33 for men, while by age, companies hired 18 people under 30 years of age. 10 people between 30 and 39 years of age also benefited from this initiative; 19 unemployed people between 40 and 49 years of age, and finally, 10 people aged 50 or over.
