May 29, 2025.- Valladolid. The government delegate in Castilla y León, Nicanor Sen, has chaired the Autonomous Commission of Follow-up of the Agricultural Employment Promotion Program (PFEA) in depressed rural areas by the year 2025.
The Autonomous Monitoring Commission of the PFEA, chaired by Nicanor Sen, includes representatives of the SEPE, ECYL, the Work Area of the Government Delegation, as well as representatives of entities affiliated to the program and trade union and business organizations.
Multisectoral participation ensures broad representation and collaboration in the implementation of the program, ensuring that funds are used effectively and efficiently.
The amount proposed by the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy and ratified by the autonomous commission remains at 5,151,925.73 euros in 2024, a figure that represented an increase of 5% over the previous periods. These amounts are transferred as subsidies to local corporations to cover the salary and business contribution costs of unemployed workers, preferably agricultural workers, hired by the entities.
Objectives of subsidized contracting
Contracts with these funds are intended to implement projects of general and social interest, provided that they fall within the competence of local corporations and are implemented directly or through adjudication. These projects include a variety of works and services that directly benefit rural communities, fostering employment, population fixation, and improving local infrastructure and services.
Through this program, works and services of general interest are financed and in order, on the one hand, to promote the hiring by local corporations of unemployed workers, preferably agricultural workers, and on the other, to create and improve basic infrastructures by making available to citizens new facilities that provide more dignified services.
With the ratification of this allocation by the Autonomous Monitoring Commission of the PFEA, it is expected that the year 2025 will see a continuity in the benefits generated by this program. Collaboration between SEPE, local corporations and other stakeholders will remain crucial to ensuring the success and effectiveness of these initiatives.
Members of the Autonomous Monitoring Commission of the PFEA
Rufino Rodríguez Cano, Functional Technical Secretary of the ECYL; Ana Belén Álvarez Matellanes, Head of the Employment Promotion Service in the Local Area; Beatríz Macías Rodríguez, Director of the Work and Immigration Area of the Government Delegation in Castilla y León; Carlos García González, representative of the Provincial Deputations (President Diputación Ávila); Juan Manuel Ramos García, responsible for the CCOO-Industria de Castilla y Plaza de Castilla