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These funds would allow 125 young people to be employed for a year

Benidorm asks for almost two million for subsidies to hire unemployed people under 30

12 March 2018
Benidorm pide casi dos millones de subvención para contratar a desempleados menores de 30 años

Benidorm City Council is going to request the Ministry of Sustainable Economy, Productive Sectors, Trade and Labor almost two million euros of subsidy to hire unemployed people under 30 for twelve months. The mayor, Toni Pérez, and the Councilor for Employment and Local Development, Mª Jesús Pinto, have informed that these funds would allow the local administration to employ up to 125 young people.

The proposals to benefit from the subsidy programs for hiring young people and qualified young people, called EMCUJU and EMPUJU, have been approved by the Local Government Board after being ruled on an information commission, and in the coming days they will be processed before the Regional Ministry.

According to the figures transferred by Pérez and Pinto, within the EMCUJU program, the City will request 819,211.56 euros to hire 53 under-30s under the apprenticeship regime with a degree in Vocational Training, Diploma or Degree; and another 1,099,287.84 euros charged to EMPUJU to do the same with up to 72 unskilled youth. The City Council, meanwhile, should provide in two years a total of 152,292.56 euros to co-finance contracts for work or service of the latter.

The mayor explained that within the first group "it is planned to hire qualified young people who can provide their services in different municipal departments such as the Economic, Tourism, Education, Heritage or Urban Planning"; while in the second group it is proposed to employ children under 30 years of age to clean the natural environment, to monitor facilities or as laborers.

Pérez stressed that "the Department of Employment has worked together with the area of ​​personnel to detect what are the needs of professionals that exist in the City Council and based on them draw the profile of workers who want to hire." However, he clarified that "the bases of both programs prevent hiring people to fill positions included in the Public Employment Offers".

The mayor and the Councilor for Employment have indicated that "this year we wanted to be very ambitious when it comes to accepting these calls, raising up to 125 hirings, although the real figure will be determined by two circumstances outside the City Council." The first, the grant granted by the regional administration, which has reserved for each program 22.5 million euros to be distributed among all the municipalities of the Region that are submitted to the call. The second, the number of unemployed young people who meet the requirements set by the Ministry to be beneficiaries of the EMPUJU and the EMCUJU.

In this regard, the mayor has clarified that "in order to participate in these programs, young people must be enrolled in the Servef as job seekers and also enrolled in the National Youth Guarantee System".

Pérez recalled that "last year, on the occasion of these same grants, we found that most of the unemployed under 30 years of Benidorm were not attached to the Youth Guarantee, which automatically excluded them from being able to participate in these programs and, consequently, of being able to be hired by the City Council for twelve months ". One circumstance, he pointed out, that "limited our contracting capacity and caused the programs not to fulfill their objective of removing a significant number of young unemployed from our city from unemployment".

To avoid that the situation is repeated "during the last months from the Department of Employment has tried to encourage young people without employment to enroll in the National Youth Guarantee System, not only in anticipation that Conselleria again convene these programs, but because most of the employment and training plans subsidized by European funds require this requirement ".