The San Bartolomé City Council has announced that a total of 28 unemployed people will benefit, for 9 months, from the program “Services in the Community Generating Employment and Training. PLD 2021”.
The program is based, according to Mayor Alexis Tejera, on a combination for the beneficiaries “with 60% of their time dedicated to work on works and/or services of general interest and 40% of training in key skills for the contracted student workers”
This project, according to the Consistory, is subsidized by the Canarian Employment Service “with an amount of 250,839.03 euros”. In addition, the Councilor for Employment, Alama María González, highlights that “it is aimed at the development of employment-generating projects in collaboration with the City Councils, in which training plans are incorporated that improve the employability of the participating workers and aimed at the long-term unemployed”.
The San Bartolomé City Council adds that, "seeing the convenience of establishing actions and measures to reduce unemployment in the municipality in the long-term unemployed and with basic studies, focuses this project on the development of activities of general interest that bring a benefit to the community”.
The jobs that have been filled are “2 teachers, 1 counselor, 1 foreman or construction manager as a teaching and coordinating team”, and the rest of the positions for student workers “in the category of janitors, office cleaning staff, public works laborer and painter's laborer”.
From the Consistory they highlight that the technical team of the project “will be in charge of coordinating the actions of the working students in the different work areas of the City Council”. Within this team, they add, “the teaching staff will be in charge of teaching the key skills to be able to take advantage of training actions leading to participation in level 2 professional certificates with enrichment”.
“This project responds to the economic and social difficulties that certain groups are going through, among which are the long-term unemployed and those with basic studies who are deprived of the essential means to cover their basic needs”, notes the mayor, who considers that these are derived “from the difficulty of accessing the labor market because they are in a situation of social exclusion or at risk of being so”.
Finally, Tejera points out that from the City Council they intend to “allow their labor reactivation and improvement of employability, carrying out works or services of general and social interest in the municipality that benefit the entire neighborhood”.
