Employment

The economic crisis, mainly due to the adjustments in the construction sector, is being particularly intense from the point of view of employment destruction. Thus, the Plan E introduces direct measures to promote employment creation, including the Fund for Local Entities and the Special Fund for Boosting up Economy and Employment, which are important both for they are endowed with a high amount of funds, 11,000 million Euros, and because they include actions of a broad scope which will create 300,000 jobs in Spain.

These Funds will support public works and they will add up to the investments included in the State Budgets, which will amount to more than 33,000 million Euros in 2009. This Axis will also include the progressive advances in the frame of the social dialogue in favour of employment and stability.

Video transcript

My name is Juan, I am from Maresme and I have two children. I have been working in the construction sector for twenty years but our sector has been seriously affected by the situation and many of us are now unemployed. I have been unemployed for six months.

One of my workmates has told me that the Government has provided the municipalities with funds so that they can make investments and create employment. I have found out that several municipalities in Maresme are going to start launching calls for tenders for construction companies. I hope many of us will get a job, at such enhancement works.

I think that everyone will benefit from this: We will improve our towns and villages and we will go back to work.

Juan will get a job thanks to the Local Investment Fund. Thanks to the aids provided by the Government, municipalities will implement investments that will contribute to the capitalisation of economy, to hire the services of different companies and to favour employment creation and the maintenance of jobs. This measure is also contemplated in the Plan E: The Economy and Employment Stimulation Plan set up by the Government.

Simulated example of one of the services citizens under similar circumstances may access

  • Local Investment Fund

    The Fund, endowed with 8,000 million Euros, is aimed at increasing public investments at a local level by financing newly planned public works which will start to be implemented in 2009.
    It will serve to finance a set of actions that, given their features, will contribute to revitalise economy and to enhance job creation and preservation [...]

    Ejes: Employment

  • Special Fund for the stimulation of economy and employment

    Endowed with 3,000 million Euros and aimed at financing immediate actions in specific, strategic production sectors. There are, mainly, three types of actuations:

    In the first place, this will serve to finance construction, refurbishment and improvement works carried out to complement those contemplated in the municipal plan: improvement works in the premises of the central government, [...]

    Ejes: Employment

  • Extraordinary Plan containing Orientation, Professional Training and Labour Market Insertion Measures

    In order to face the increase of unemployment, the Government approved of an extraordinary plan containing a set of orientation, professional training and labour market insertion measures last April 2008.
    This extraordinary plan is in force in the whole country and it will be run by the National Employment Department and by those Automous Regions whose [...]

    Ejes: Employment

  • Allowances of 1,500 Euros to hire unemployed workers with family responsibilities

    Unemployment is affecting mainly people with family responsibilities and, thus, the Government has approved of new tax allowances on Social Security fees for businessmen who offer indefinite contracts to unemployed workers with family responsibilities.
    Thus, those employers who offer full time indefinite contracts to unemployed workers with family responsibilities between the beginning of December 2008 and [...]

    Ejes: Employment

  • The capitalisation of unemployment aids increases to enhance self-employment

    The Government has increased the capitalisation percentage of unemployment aids so that the unemployed may have more chances to become self-employed workers.
    Thus, the single payment will amount to the value of the corresponding necessary investment to implement each specific activity, including the business start-up taxes, up to 60% - maximum - of the taxable unemployment [...]

    Ejes: Employment

  • Reorganising and adapting the active employment policies “2009 Employment Plan for Socially Useful Jobs”

    The changes the labour market has gone through over the last few months have brought about a considerable increase of unemployment, which makes it advisable to enhance active employment policies that make it possible for unemployed workers benefiting from them to work and take part in training programmes at the same time, because this combination [...]

    Ejes: Employment

  • Improving the Public Employment Services

    The State Employment Department is implementing an intense plan in the management of unemployment aids, incorporating organisational, management and technological changes which have made it possible to face the sharp increase in the number of applicants and to provide citizens with efficient solutions. The most outstanding measures are, among others, the hiring of 1,415 workers [...]

    Ejes: Employment

  • Promoting public works

    After a strong period of bid allocation, the implementation of public works has intensified, especially in the Ministry of Development, which is the main investor. This serves to stimulate the economic activity and employment as well as to make up for the sharp decrease of residential construction.
    Beneficiaries
    Building contractors and workers hired either directly or indirectly [...]

    Ejes: Employment

  • 2009-2012 Housing and Refurbishment Plan. It includes the so-called House Renove Programme

    This Plan contemplates 996,000 actions over the next four years in order to make it easier for citizens to access houses to buy or let, to promote subsidized housing construction and to expand on our housing market.
    It establishes measures to enhance rentals (the main aim is introducing 40% of the newly built subsidized houses into [...]

    Ejes: Employment

  • Tourism Renove Plan

    New ICO financing line intended for small and medium size enterprises in the tourism sector. It offers advantages (90% of an investment of up to 1 million Euros at 1.5%, to be returned in up to 12 years) for the renewal and refurbishment of infrastructures for tourism. This financing line amounts to 400 million Euros [...]

    Ejes: Employment