The mayor of Teguise, Oswaldo Betancort, accompanied by the councilor Olivia Duque and the councilor Eño Robayna, welcomed this week more than 50 new workers who joined various areas of the City Council to attend to various municipal services for the next 6 months.
“This new employment plan is not only presented as an opportunity for all those people who were looking to rejoin the labor market, but will also result in the improvement of services and public spaces,” Betancort declared during his speech at the Santo Domingo Convent in the Villa, from where the last group of women and men hired in the different professional categories left.
Teguise has activated two plans in the first months of the year, such as the "Green and Social Employment Teguise”, after the signing of an agreement by the Island Council for job-generating projects, with an investment of 323 thousand euros. In this case, the following were hired: 2 home help assistants, 1 social worker, 1 lawyer, 1 technical architect, 2 administrative assistants, 7 janitors, 8 cleaning laborers, 2 1st-bricklayers, 2 construction laborers and 1 2nd-painter.
Likewise, and thanks to the agreement of the Canarian Employment Service, last December a plan called Teguise+Ambiental was launched, which had 39 unemployed workers assigned to the following categories: 2 administrative assistants, 4 1st-bricklayers, 4 construction laborers, 4 2nd-painters, 16 cleaning laborers and 4 janitors; as well as 2 home assistants for six months and 1 social worker and 2 nursery assistants for 10 months. All this with a financing of almost 365 thousand euros.
Betancort announced that in mid-April another plan will begin, also thanks to an agreement between the Cabildo and the Teguise City Council, which regulates the procedure for the direct granting of nominated subsidies to job-generating projects for the project "Works and Environment-Teguise 2022/23”, which will have a financing of 187 thousand euros to be able to incorporate 2 1st-bricklayers, 2 construction laborers, 2 painters and 9 cleaning laborers.
The mayor thanked the diligence of the municipal technicians for being able to carry out both employment projects and conveyed to the new employees “all the encouragement to comply with their new obligations with respect for public service and the utmost education to the neighbor during a vital period that will mean, in addition to the pertinent economic remuneration, an opportunity for personal development”.