October 4, 2023.– The Government Subdelegation hosted the second follow-up meeting of the Agricultural Employment Plan. A Plan that has a budget close to 1.7 million euros by the State Employment Service (SEPE) and is complemented by financial contributions from the Provincial Council of Ávila and the Junta de Castilla y León, with the aim of promoting employment in the province, especially among groups with greater difficulties of access to the labour market, such as rural women.
The projects already have a green light for implementation from next December, and for three months. The works carried out are generally related to actions of municipal competence of social interest such as paving of sidewalks, conservation of public buildings, repairs or cleaning of gardens, but there is a wide range of possibilities to improve the infrastructures of the localities where the Plan is developed.
“Thus, we can find actions aimed at the prevention of forest fires that range from weeding to the realization of existing barbeque covers, in order to adapt these leisure areas to the fire regulations,” said the subdelegate of the Government, who has also pointed out that “priority in hiring are those unqualified workers, possible agrarians with family responsibilities, with a longer period of time as a job seeker, and who have not been hired in employment plans in the immediately preceding year, among others.”
In addition, in parallel and thanks to funding from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, training courses are being carried out to improve the skills of workers or potential workers in rural areas, such as the Digital Training course, “which is very well received by participants, and which in previous editions has offered training to 111 women. This program will soon begin in Candeleda, Bercial de Zapardiel and Nava de Arévalo, for the time being.”
In this Monitoring Committee, in addition to the subdelegate of the Government, the director of the Public Service of State Employment in Ávila, Isabel Pellón Esteban, the provincial manager of Ecyl, Francisco Javier Luis Jiménez, the president of the Provincial Council of Ávila, Carlos García, as well as representatives of CCOO, UGT, UCCL Young Farmers and CEOE have also been present.