The Labor Minister, Claudius Moroni; his peer of Education, Jaime Perczyk;and the Secretary for Strategic Affairs of the Presidency, Gustavo Beliz; headed this Tuesday, together with union and industrial leaders, the presentation of the program Promote Employmentwhich will benefit some 600,000 currently unemployed people by improving their skills and assistance in job search, among other aspects.
“Training is an essential requirement for new jobs to be filled by job seekers,” Moroni told Télam, after presenting the program for people aged 18 to 64, without formal work in recent years. three months and with difficulties to enter employment in white.
The minister remarked that for the companies that hire this sector of the population, the plan includes “a series of incentives”, among which are “subsidies for the payment of salaries and reduction of patrimonial contributions”.
In turn, the program includes “job training” by “educational and trade union institutions, business groups, national universities and municipalities,” Moroni explained during the presentation at the “Gastón Barral” Theater of the Uocra headquarters.
“We want whoever is being trained later to be required by the productive system“, clarified the minister.
Likewise, regarding gender parity in the current labor market, the minister stated: “Six years ago in an automobile terminal I did not see a single woman working, today I see entire sectors occupied by women.”
“There are highly masculinized activities where the hiring of women is beginning to appear“, he added and said that it is a moment in which “there is a very strong growth in the hiring of women”.
The program has “a $250 million financing by the World Bank and will benefit 600 thousand unemployed people“, specified the labor portfolio.
“From now on we are going to go to two cities in each province to explain how it works,” said the minister.
In addition to Moroni, Perczyk and Béliz, industrial and union leaders also took part in the event.
The president of the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA), Daniel Funes from Riojastressed that the program is “an important initiative” that was “consulted with workers, businessmen and universities”.
“We are convinced that production and work must be developed jointly,” Funes de Rioja told Télam.
The industrial leader affirmed that “we must encourage the hiring and training” and agreed with the Minister of Labor that the people who are trained “be absorbed by the labor market.”
? In the @uocra we present the program #PromoteEmploymentintended for unemployed men and women in Argentina.
➡️ The Minister of @EducacionAR, @jaimeperczykthe Secretary of Strategic Affairs, Gustavo Béliz, and union and business representatives pic.twitter.com/wgbyJ4WLhL
— Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security (@MintrabajoAR) May 17, 2022
“It must be done with a federal and inclusive sense of SMEs and people,” he added.
Asked about inflation, Funes de Rioja maintained that “there are elements both externally and internally that are at play” and, although he affirmed that “companies are price setters”, he also said that this happens in a context where “it must be find macroeconomic stability” and “predictability”.
“Inflation is not convenient for anyone, neither for businessmen”, he added.
On the other hand, the head of the Construction Workers’ Union (Uocra), Gerardo Martinezstressed that training is “a fundamental tool” to improve “the living and socio-labor conditions” of each worker.
“Those who did not have the possibility of accessing professional training, will now have a support network that will cover the entire country,” Martínez said in dialogue with Télam, adding about Fostering Employment: “it is something we have been waiting for” .
In relation to the labor situation in the country, the trade unionist remarked that from 2018 to 2019 “100,000 jobs” were lost, the same amount as “during the pandemic.” However, he maintained that this scenario was reversed during the last year.
“We once again had 410,000 female workers in the construction industryMartinez stressed.
GERARDO MARTÍNEZ HOST OF THE LAUNCH OF THE “FOMENTAR EMPLOYMENT” PROGRAM
The Secretary General of UOCRA, Gerardo Martínez, was accompanied by national officials in the presentation of the “Promote Employment” program, (…) pic.twitter.com/xCxSqpvJsf
— UOCRA (@uocra) May 17, 2022
In his turn, the general secretary of the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy (UTEP), Esteban “Gringo” Castro, remarked on the presented program that “everything that is training and education is auspicious.”
Castro stressed that there will be “workers who will improve their skills” and others who “will need a different specificity”, as is the case of “recycling workers, the care economy and horticultural production.”
Among the main activities contemplated in the Foster Employment program, the Ministry of Labor mentioned “job orientation services and job search assistance, job training courses with the endorsement of the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security of the Nation and services labor intermediation.
In addition, the program contemplates “the training of 3,000 agents from employment agencies, 40 Vocational Training institutions and 600 Employment offices throughout the country based on different actions.”
As indicated, “some 18,000 companies that come together in the Employment Portal and more than 400 municipalities” will also benefit indirectly from the program.
