The Provincial Director of the State Public Employment Service (SEPE), Jorge Vera, has highlighted the TandEM program, whose second edition in Melilla has a funding of 2.4 million euros, compared to 1.5 million euros in the previous year.
In an interview given to Televisión Melilla, Vera has stressed that this is a “key” initiative and “as interesting as an Employment Plan”, combining accredited training and employment contracts for the participants. “The programs work well and they are successful,” he said.
“It’s a program that gives real opportunities. The participants leave with a salary, with accredited training and with the possibility of accessing unemployment protection until they find a new opportunity,” he said. Thus, he has insisted that the credit for this type of program must be “continued”, and therefore they will try to increase the line “as much as our budget credit allows us”.
Vera explained that this programme, which replaces the former ‘workshop schools’ and ‘employment workshops’, aims to provide work-linked training to young people between the ages of 16 and 29 in projects inspired by public workshop schools.
Dual training and contract
The program has two main lines. The first is aimed at children under 30 years of age, with a duration of 12 months: the first three are dedicated to training with a scholarship of 9 euros per day and, from the fourth, an employment contract is formalized with a remuneration of about 1,700 euros gross per month.
The second line is aimed at groups that are difficult to integrate – people over 45 years of age, women, victims of gender violence or people with disabilities – and offers training and a contract for six months with the same salary amount.
The Provincial Director said that, although it will not be until the end of this month that the awardees of the programs are known, this edition has presented up to five projects, including proposals related to digitization and informatics.