The Melilla Orientation, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centre (COE) of the Provincial Directorate of the Public Service of State Employment (SEPE) of Melilla is developing today a Good Practice Day on employment and training policies to address actions related to job search in addition to the training offer existing in the city.
The Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, who attended the inauguration of the activity, has valued the realization of this maximum day when “we all start from a common objective such as continuing to improve active employment policies and improve employability in the city”.
The head of the Delegation, in her speech, pointed out that the current data “invite us to continue working so that the Melillense citizens continue to improve employability and access to the labor market and we have a mandate to put all the necessary tools, including working days, to share knowledge and continue improving access to the labor market.”
Moh wanted to remember where we started and the effort that is being made to make this work bear fruit. “We have to continue working much harder, but we cannot fall into pessimism, but we have to see where we started and where we are right now,” he said.
The fact is that “all the active employment policies that have been implemented and that have been promoted throughout this time have meant that, for example, in our city we have gone from 8% in indefinite hiring to more than 40%”.
Or the fact that today, in Melilla, we have 1,457 unemployed less than in 2018. “The fall in unemployment was often related to the fact that there was a population that had gone to live in other cities, but recently the Autonomous City has said that we have increased the census, so increasing the census while reducing the number of unemployed I think is also good news,” he said.
Moh has also highlighted the increase in the Interprofessional Minimum Wage or the active employment policies that are being implemented by the Provincial Directorate of the SEPE. “Your work is important because we need the citizens of Melilla to have a good orientation, to know what are the tools with which it counts, what it has to do at all times, or where it has to be formed, showing an X-ray of what we have in the city and what we need,” he said.
The Delegate recalled that, “behind the data there are families, so we have to continue working to continue improving the quality of life and living conditions of people.”
Laws and regulations
The Provincial Director of the SEPE, Jorge Vera, for his part, has valued the “decisive and forceful reforms in active policies as protection for unemployment” carried out by the Government of Spain from 2021 until now that “have been continuous and have done nothing more than improve the lives of citizens”.
Thus, he referred to Law 3/2023, of February 28, on Employment; Royal Decree 818/2021, of September 28, which regulates the common activation programs for the employment of the National Employment System; Order TDF/277/2024, of March 15, which establishes the regulatory bases for the granting of subsidies for training actions in digital skills within the framework of the Recovery Plan; Royal Decree-Law 2/2024, of May 21, which adopts urgent measures for the simplification and improvement of the level of assistance.
Vera has also referred to the Opea Training that is going to come out soon and that has an amount greater than 700,000 euros, “a very interesting and important program of support to the COE to carry out that follow-up to all users who are requesting employment and who have a new benefit”; to experiential programs such as the Schools Workshops with almost 3 million euros and their scholarships; training for employment with 1.5 million in training scholarships; the program of employment inclusion of people with disabilities for the ordinary market and protected with 25,000 and 500,000 euros respectively; the program of promotion of autonomous employment with more than 500,000 euros…
Regarding training, he has reported that 34 actions, proposals, have been carried out. “Six training institutions have participated in the training of seven professional families,” he said. A training given “following the requests of the Melillense company itself in the meetings held by the Provincial Executive Commission and which valued the training demands adjusted thus to the reality of the Melilla labor market”, he said.
Regarding the implementation of programs of the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism, he referred to the development in our city of the First Experience Program, the Tandem Program or those of the State Foundation for Training in Employment (Fundae).