This initiative will help to integrate 6,000 people into the labour market and contribute to the economic development of the Balearic Islands.
The Plan combines training, accreditation of work experience and upskilling, reskilling and skills accreditation programmes.
The Regional Ministry of Enterprise, Employment and Energy, through the Balearic Islands Employment Service (SOIB), has presented the Intensive Follow-up Plan (SI), an initiative designed to tackle the challenge of unemployment among the low-skilled population over the age of 45. This plan aims to improve employment among this group and reduce long-term unemployment figures.
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The employment of those over 45 will be improved with the Intensive Follow-up Plan (SI)
The regional secretary for Labour, Employment and Social Dialogue, Catalina Cabrer, explained: ‘The Balearic Islands are leaders in job creation and in reducing unemployment. These good figures encourage us to go one step further and work on the quality of employment. We have to stop talking about job insecurity.
He added: ‘Despite these good figures, we cannot stop working on the structural unemployment that we have on the Islands, identified, above all, in the long-term unemployed over 45 years of age. This is a group that was not being sufficiently addressed and which we have proposed for the first time, through the SOIB, an Intensive Monitoring Plan with which we will carry out a diagnosis to find out the situation of these people, of whom there are around 6,000, and to promote their training. This initiative will allow us to get to know the reality of this group and to be able to plan new employment policies that are better adapted to their reality and to empower this sector of the population, helping them to reintegrate into the labour market and also to contribute to the economic development of the Balearic Islands.
The Intensive Follow-up Plan combines training, accreditation of work experience and upskilling programmes, providing participants with the necessary tools to adapt to the demands of the labour market. The training focuses on developing skills that enable workers in this age group over 45 to be more competitive and improve their employment opportunities.
The director of the SOIB, María de la Luz Moreno, remarked: ‘From the SOIB we will select the files that correspond to the SI Plan and we will carry out diagnostic interviews. We want to know what the situation of this sector of the population is and why. With this final report, we will complete the Employment Plan that we are drawing up in the Balearic Islands to focus active employment policies’.
Furthermore, the Director of the SOIB stressed that: ‘the first thing we will do when we start the insertion itinerary is to include them in two programmes, which we are promoting in collaboration with the Regional Ministry of Education: upskilling reskilling, for employed and unemployed people, which promotes training in digital skills to qualify in strategic sectors of the Balearic Islands. And a second skills accreditation programme that will allow us to evaluate and certify those professional skills that the user has acquired throughout their working life and that will allow them to access an official qualification’.
In addition, the plan encourages shared responsibility between the SOIB and the users, who will have to commit themselves to actively participate in the scheduled training and interviews. This collaborative approach ensures that participants are supported and actively involved in the job search process.