Yaiza and all the municipalities with experience in the Training Programs in Alternation with Employment (PFAE) are in the position of not being able to give continuity to their projects this 2025 due to "significant changes in the labor regulation that prevent, since January 1, the hiring of management teams (teachers and administrators) linked to activation programs for employment", for example, in the conditions in which Yaiza did it last year for a period of eleven months.
In fact, the Administration has just returned the subsidy of one million euros to the Canarian Employment Service corresponding to the financing of the three projects that Yaiza intended to carry out again with new beneficiaries during the 2025 - 2026 academic year: Home Help, Gardening (Beautify Yaiza) and Social Dynamization (Anima Yaiza).
These initiatives, which ended last March, benefited 45 residents of Yaiza who were hired by the municipality for eleven months to live the rewarding experience of theoretical and practical learning combined with work. With the new students there would be no obstacles, but yes with the employment relationship of the management team due to the entry into force of Law 3/2023, of February 28, on Employment, which eliminates the described hiring modality.
The mayor, Óscar Noda, describes as "frustrating" the reality of not being able to continue, for the moment, with the PFAE, "a fact that affects many Canarian municipalities that have also conveyed their disappointment to me. Yaiza and other municipalities are prepared to start with the new PFAEs, but we are in a situation of uncertainty, although we continue to trust that there will be a viable solution by the Canarian Employment Service to be able to hire the management teams of the projects."
The administrations that manage the PFAEs would have to sign indefinite or fixed-term contracts or fixed-term contracts due to circumstances of production with a limit of six months, types of contracts that are not applicable to councils or town halls.
"We do not have an applicable contractual figure to execute the PFAEs. We had a meeting last July with the Canarian Employment Service and at the moment there is no solution in accordance with the Law to carry out the hiring of management teams, so we proceeded to return the subsidies for the projects, as different local entities are doing," adds Óscar Noda. The financing of the PFAEs comes from funds from the Ministry of Labor and the Canarian Employment Service.
