Madrid (EFE).- The Council of Ministers has approved the distribution of more than 2,803 million euros among the autonomous communities for the implementation of active employment policies in 2023, whose objective is to combat unemployment, especially long-term unemployment.
This was indicated this Tuesday by the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, in the press conference after the council, where she reiterated that these policies are going to focus on one of the “most relevant” groups in the labor market, due to their importance and their number, which are the long-term unemployed.
The also Minister of Labor and Social Economy recalled that the Government has reduced the number of long-term unemployed by 14%, but the people who remain in this situation are very numerous and reach 1.2 million.
“This is the main problem that Spain has in terms of unemployment,” stated Díaz, who has called on employers to hire long-term unemployed people and people over 45 years of age, because “they are in the best of their professional career” and “they cannot do without this talent”.
The ministry explains in a statement that it is “the largest economic endowment for these policies in history”, and is financed mainly by the Public State Employment Service (SEPE), with almost 2,572 million, but also by the Recovery, Transformation Plan and Resilience (231 million).
Sectoral Conference on Employment and Labor Affairs
The definitive territorial distribution of these funds will be approved at the next Sectoral Conference on Employment and Labor Affairs to be held in the coming weeks.
Of the SEPE funds, almost 2,500 million will be managed by the communities and will be allocated to Services and Programs of Active Employment Policies: Employment and Training (1,424 million).
Vocational training initiatives for employment aimed at employed and unemployed people who do not correspond to professional certificates (440.5 million); and job alternation training initiatives (633.6 million).
Another 73.5 million euros will be allocated to the modernization of the Public Employment Services.
The ministry explains that the 231.8 million corresponding to the Recovery Plan will be distributed according to the criteria agreed at the Sector Conference on July 21, 2021, based on the number of potential beneficiaries of each project.