• Work and CCAA agree the territorial distribution of 2,571 million euros at national level • As a novelty, the criteria for the distribution of credits for the years 2026, 2027, 2028 and 2029 are established to give stability to the implementation of active employment policies • For the first time funds are prioritized for training in algorithms, artificial intelligence, risk prevention against catastrophes and adverse meteorological phenomena • 20% of the funds distributed in each year will go to the attention that would have shown a greater impact on the improvement of the employability of the Annual Plan for the Promotion of Decent Employment of the year.

The Ministry of Labor and Social Economy and the autonomous communities have approved, during the celebration of the LXXXVI Sectoral Conference on Employment and Labor Affairs held on Wednesday, the territorial distribution of 2,571,961,030 euros to provide the Active Employment Policies (PAE) of 2025. Of that amount, 121,258,194 euros correspond to Extremadura.

This budgetary investment will make it possible to manage the employment and training programmes for work that correspond to them normatively and are included in the expenditure budget of the State Public Employment Service (SEPE).

In addition, it incorporates a multi-year funding framework until the year 2029 to give continuity to the implementation of active employment policies and provide stability to the National Employment System.

New training priorities

With regard to on-the-job training, these funds will finance work-linked training, training with a commitment to contract, training linked to social dialogue and collective bargaining, as well as calls for job offer training when these training actions are not linked to professional certificates and are linked to the Catalogue of Training Specialties of the National Employment System.

With regard to subsidies intended to finance training in matters relating to social dialogue and collective bargaining, these funds will, among other things, serve to prioritise training in algorithms or artificial intelligence systems, in accordance with the rights of representatives of working people laid down in Article 64(4)(d) of the Workers’ Statute, or in the negotiation of action protocols relating to measures for the prevention of risks from disasters and other adverse meteorological phenomena, provided for as content of collective agreements by Article 85(1) of the same legal text.

Distribution criteria

Each autonomous community will receive 70% of the amount allocated based on the criteria of application of article 62.2 of Law 3/2023, of February 28, on Employment.
The programme aimed at strengthening the personal resources dedicated to job guidance and prospecting in the Public Employment Services with 3,000 people and the grants intended to finance training in matters relating to social dialogue and collective bargaining will be distributed in the same amount allocated to each autonomous community in 2024.

The remaining amount, which represents 28.91% of the total funds allocated in 2025, will be distributed among the autonomous communities depending on the degree of compliance with the objectives set in the Annual Plan for the Promotion of Decent Employment (PAFED) of 2024, taking into account the effort made in the attentions that had the greatest positive impact on employability, the percentage of people receiving benefits, the effort dedicated to training, the quality of their job orientation networks, and the value obtained in the Indices of Compliance of Objectives defined in the PAFED 2024.

20% of the funds allocated in 2024, that is 514,392,206 euros, will be directed to the development of the objectives relating to care that would have shown a greater impact on improving employability as indicated in the Annual Plan for the Promotion of Decent Employment of 2025.

The funds that the autonomous communities will eventually receive will be distributed around these four initiatives and programs:

• Active Employment Policy Services and Programs: Employment and Training:1.424.300.250 €
• Vocational training initiatives for employment aimed at employed and unemployed persons who do not correspond to professional certificates: 440,554,480 €
• Training initiatives in alternation in employment: 633,606,300 €
• Modernization of Public Employment Services: 73,500,000 €
• TOTAL: 2.571.961.030 €

Its impact on improving employability will be evaluated within the Annual Plan for the Promotion of Decent Employment 2025.

In addition, they will be oriented to the development of initiatives that would have shown a greater impact on improving employability.