In addition, another 15 unemployed will be able to obtain a certificate of professionalism through an electronic administration course
The Ministry of Economic Development, Tourism and Employment, through the Regional Employment and Training Service (SEF), has awarded the City of Las Torres de Cotillas two programs that will allow the recruitment and training of young people of the municipality enrolled in the system of Youth Guarantee.
Both programs are co-financed by the European Social Fund and total € 62,000.
One of these initiatives is the Local Public Employment Program 'Electronic Administration', which, with a subsidy of 49,000 euros, will allow the Consistory to hire for six months five young people under 30 years of age who currently neither study nor work to perform work Administrative assistant in the local Administration.
The other program for the promotion of youth employment awarded to Las Torres de Cotillas, with a grant of 13,300 euros, consists of an office course that will form 190 hours for 15 young people.
Participants will learn how to handle the basic package of Office, and acquire the notions in computer science most demanded by companies.
The SEF has also granted the City of Torreño 58,800 euros to develop the course 'Administrative management activities', with 800 hours, which will give 15 unemployed the opportunity to obtain a certificate of professionalism.
This degree will accredit them to work as administrative or administrative assistants of accounting.
The SEF's director general, Alejandro Zamora, stressed that "the collaboration between the Community and municipalities is essential to be able to offer more unemployed people in the region more and better employment opportunities, especially the groups with greater difficulty finding work As are the young. "
Joint actions to boost employment
Zamora met today with the Mayor of Las Torres de Cotillas, Domingo Coronado, to study the possibility of jointly launching other employment and training programs that improve employment opportunities for the 1,909 unemployed in the municipality.
The evolution of unemployment data in this locality has been positive in the last year and the municipality closed 2016 with a drop in its unemployment figure of 7.38 percent, which means 152 unemployed less than in the previous year.
The youth unemployment also saw their number drop when registering a decline of 6.86 percent.
With regard to job creation, the municipality has 294 members of Social Security more than a year ago, which is an increase of 4 percent.
Source: CARM