The Mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, announced today at the meeting of the Bureau of Local Employment that "13,624 have benefited Lorca in 2011 of more than 7.4 million euros invested by the Department of Employment programs Lorca Hall training and employment. "
Francisco Jodar has stressed that the Consistory "has broken records again investment in this area, exceeding by more than 1 million euros in spending in 2010 and the forecasts made for this year. In this way we also substantially increasing the number of beneficiaries, although this year the Ministry has not funded the program Proempleo. "
Jodar explained that "these figures, which do not include materials used by the 400 unemployed Lorca unemployment that we have taken to rehabilitate municipal facilities and improve services to citizens, were made possible primarily by the collaboration of the Department of Employment Autonomous Community, which has intensified since the earthquake, the great effort already done with Lorca. "
The mayor has indicated that particular Lorca 12,384 have been helped in finding employment for career counseling service Employment Local Center of the Consistory Lorca, while 497 have been beneficiaries of vocational guidance for Employment and Self Employment , 536 for training and employment programs and 207 courses of their own.
These figures should be emphasized advising 82 new entrepreneurs to start their entrepreneurship, in addition to the first contest "learning to undertake."
In addition, Francisco Jodar has highlighted the completion of 16 training and commissioning of two employment workshops "Phoenix", which involves 50 Lorca over 25 years, and the Workshop School Athena, with which it has invested to train 43 Lorca under 25 diverse specialties, including embroidery Lorca, to avoid losing this tradition.
Finally, the mayor has emphasized participation in initial vocational training programs of the municipality of 172 students under 21 who had left their studies, which facilitates their integration into the labor market or return to the educational system .
With investments in the use of other councils are exceeded 8 million and a half
Finally, the mayor pointed out that "in addition to this investment, more than 7.4 million euros, which has managed the Department of Employment during the year, we must add training and employment programs that develop cross-way as other councils Women and Youth, with local employment centers are specific to these sectors of the population, and the courses of the Department of Information Society, where Lorca is open to all who want unlimited seats, the Department of Health , with training for food handlers or the People's University, where some of the courses also contribute to the occupational integration of Lorca. In this way, we could be talking about a municipal investment for training and employment of more than 8, 5 million euros and even more beneficiaries. "
The Bureau of Local Employment Lorca City Council is an organ of participation that are integrated trade unions and business associations in the municipality, of the political groups represented in the Consistory.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca