The Arrecife City Council, the most populated municipality in Lanzarote and with one of the highest rates of social inequality, has hired 50 people who have been long-term job seekers. The new public workers, who are over 45 years of age and mostly mothers with dependents, will perform different tasks for the next 9 months.
The mayoress of Arrecife, Astrid Pérez, and the Councilor for Employment and head of the Local Development Agency, Saro González Perdomo, have welcomed this group of 50 workers who were registered with the Canarian Employment Service as long-term unemployed.
From now on, these people will carry out their new functions, preferably in the neighborhoods of Arrecife where the Government group wishes to clean up, paint and beautify the public spaces of the capital's neighborhoods.
This new Social Employment Plan, with funding from the Comprehensive Employment Plan of the Canary Islands, financed by the Government of the Canary Islands and the Ministry of Labor, Migration and Social Security, is part of the actions that the mayoress Astrid Pérez announced in June of last year, when she took office as first mayor, where she announced that during her mandate she would prioritize the hiring of people at risk of social exclusion, with family responsibilities, or who due to their advanced age had difficulties in reintegrating into the labor market.
Among the trades of these half a thousand people hired are painters, laborers, bricklayers, cleaning staff, carpenters. Plumbers, electricians, administrative assistants, gardeners and even a technical architect who will work on collecting data for the preparation of new projects that the Government group wishes to undertake in this mandate, especially in the neighborhoods of Arrecife.
With this, there are already two social employment plans that the mayoress Astrid Pérez and the Department of Employment, under the direction of Saro González, have launched in these seven months of municipal management.
This new Plan, under the name of Arrecife Emplea, has as its main objectives to improve and condition municipal infrastructures and spaces, clean up public and scattered plots, and clean up the garden areas of the municipality of Arrecife.
This Friday, in a meeting that the mayoress and the councilor held with these new hires, she encouraged them to carry out their work diligently for the benefit of the city where they live, and wished them luck because from now on an opportunity opens up for them all to move forward, after this nine-month contract, with job reintegration and access to future social benefits.