“The policies coming from the General Administration of the State and the Government of Spain are being much more decisive and are more tangible in Melilla.”
The Provincial Director of the Public Service of State Employment (SEPE) of Melilla, Jorge Vera, in an interview granted to Onda Cero, has highlighted the active employment policies of the Government presided over by Pedro Sánchez, “there has been an increase in salaries, improvement in pensions, transport”. He has also exposed the effects of the Labor Reform, with the reduction of temporality and the decrease of structural unemployment.
All this, he has assured, with the objective of ending the gender gap following the guidelines of the Government of the Nation. In this regard, he said that “there is a clear awareness of the Government in implementing active employment policies with special emphasis on this issue.”
Vera has stressed that, at the state level, the figures of female unemployment are falling and has listed the different programs that address this reality in a specific way, such as the ‘Women in the Rural and Urban World Program’, through which training coverage has been given to many women in the city through the Autonomous City.
2,200 unemployed less
The Provincial Director has assured that “all these programs are adjusting to the need for the response that can be given to the city of Melilla”. In this regard, he has made it clear that unemployment has fallen in Melilla, “compared to the previous government, it has fallen by more than 2,200 people.” “That’s data, we move with data and it’s something that can be demonstrated,” he said.
At this point, Vera has exposed the various measures and reforms carried out by the Government of Spain to improve the quality of employment. Thus, he has listed the Labor Reform, the pension reform, the laws on gender violence and equality, the Education Law, the Trans Law, the increases in the Interprofessional Minimum Wage or the tax reduction, among others.
On the other hand, it has highlighted the investment of more than 350 million euros of the Integral Plan of Socioeconomic Development of the City of Melilla, through which actions such as the Center of the Network of Orientation, Entrepreneurship, Accompaniment and Innovation for Employment (COE Network) in the city, the change of category of the airport, the construction of educational centers and the equipment of the University Hospital have been structured.
The Provincial Director of the SEPE has assured that all these policies, reforms and measures have as a transversal objective to reduce the gender gap. In addition, he said that “the impact of the policy of the Government of Spain in Melilla is more tangible”.