The private sector created in Cuba almost twice as many jobs in 2022 as the state sector. The number of newly employed rose to 226,704, of which 79,912 were public compared to 146,792 in “other forms of management”, according to data offered in the annual balance analyzed this Tuesday with the presence of Prime Minister Manuel Marrero, who asked for “a different look ” taking into account “the challenges imposed by demographic dynamics”.
According to the report presented by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, the occupation amounts to more than 4,653,000 workers, although the figure will have to be specified, pending an occupancy study announced this Monday with which it is intended to know “the magnitudes and structures of the economically active population”.
The document clarifies that the percentage of employed women amounts to 39%, 34,000 more than in 2021. The largest number of female jobs were created in the sector of direct activities in the production and provision of services in the state sectors and non-state, “with a favorable impact of the jobs generated by the private sector.”
The document clarifies that the percentage of employed women amounts to 39%, 34,000 more than in 2021
The data, however, reveal – as argued by Ariel Fonseca Quesada, national director of Employment – a gender gap, since 34% of women do not have paid work, especially among mothers who take care of children or the elderly , added without breaking down the data.
The number of those who do not have any type of employment relationship was also offered, an amount that now amounts to 172,069 people and that coincides with the problem pointed out by Marrero, who indicated that many templates are empty due to a lack of qualified personnel, a problem that he proposed to solve at through moonlighting.
The prime minister criticized some other issues that occur in the workplace, including unpaid employment for young people, arguing that they are practical, the low penetration of teleworking beyond the pandemic or informal employment, against which, He insisted that it is necessary to fight.
“It is not about establishing a persecution now, but an identification to be able to protect the worker and demand that the employer assume the responsibilities that correspond to him,” he explained.
At the opposite extreme would be the case pointed out by Alejandro Gil Fernández, Minister of Economy and Planning, who censured “underemployment”, an evil that fundamentally plagues the sector that depends on the state budget and employs people who receive a salary without a job. specific to do. Gil regretted that the salaries do not serve to cover the needs of the workers, although his work as head of the area could be supposed to provide solutions.
Other issues related to social assistance were addressed at the meeting, such as the situation of women with children who cannot enter the labor market because they have no one to care for their children. According to the prime minister, the expansion of child care through the “little houses” has not been of much use, since its coverage is negligible.
In addition, the creation of “social work” as a university degree “based on a Cuban theory, which is in no way similar to that of other countries” was announced.
In addition, the creation of “social work” as a university degree was announced “based on a Cuban theory, which is in no way similar to that of other countries, because it is based on our country-model, in which social justice prevails.” , an explanation that clarified little about the content and how it differs from the profession in other nations.
The Cuban leaders addressed in this meeting a problem of the first magnitude for the future of the country, which faces low birth rates, great longevity and a massive emigration of people of working age, responsible for supporting the State and pensions. But Cubans have the feeling that beyond words what is systematically missing are changes.
“The political discourse continues, the exhortations, but nothing is said about the drop in the purchasing power of the Cuban peso, about the fact that pensioners and many workers cannot cover the cost of the basic food basket with their income, nothing is said about poverty. So what do we pensioners who work for our Cuba do, defend it, cut cane and were in agricultural and military mobilizations? None of that and the measures to be adopted to solve it are discussed in public, we ignore those problems that hit us so much. We support the macroeconomic adjustment that has been mentioned, and its scope is not public either”, wrote a reader in cubadebate.
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