Canary Islands accumulates 277,400 people unemployed, ten percent more unemployment than last year. This is five times more than the rest of the State. 27,300 people have lost their jobs in the last quarter and one out of every nine workers in the Canary Islands is still in ERTE, the most efficient employment protection tool applied during this pandemic period.
Some 20,000 freelancers have already ceased their activity. But this Wednesday a hopeful data was registered: 5,100 people left the unemployment list in May in the Canary Islands. This represents a decrease of almost 2% compared to April. However, in the last 12 months unemployment grew by more than 1,300 people, 6% more. In this context the Minister of Labor, Yolanda Diaz sign this Thursday, in Tenerife, the signature of Canary Islands Comprehensive Employment Plan (BAKE).
“The crisis was very hard throughout the country, but in the Canary Islands in a singular way“The minister acknowledged in an interview this Thursday in Today for Today Tenerife. “I want to give certainty and the last agreement of the social agents maintains the tripartite commission that will continue to analyze the data; before September 31 we will re-evaluate the necessary measures so that no company or worker is affected,” said Díaz after the positions expressed by employers to extend the ERTE until the end of 2021.
After learning that in the Canary Islands youth unemployment is close to 62% and that more than half of the workers registered in the employment offices are over forty-five years old, Díaz acknowledges that “the job market cannot afford to lose people who are in their prime of careers“From the Minister’s point of view, it is a” culture “that must be” eradicated “, as is the case with the precarious nature of youth contracts:”young people better have a bad contract or precarious to be unemployed; a modern country does not make these kinds of claims“and adds that” it is not correct “.
However, Díaz has issued a warning: “earnings in the labor market do not operate in the short term. All this regulatory and productive change is going to require a time that I hope will be favorable; but it is not a divine curse and the policies that other European countries have made must be applied “.
Cospedal’s imputation
At the imputation of the former senior official of the Popular Party The Minister of Labor has also referred. “Cospedal’s accusation is very serious; use the structures and infrastructures of the State to promote all kinds of criminal actions against political adversaries and not only. The gravity is maximum, “lamented Díaz.
– The former secretary general of the PP and former president of Castilla-La Mancha, María Dolores de Cospedal (d), accompanied by her husband, the businessman Ignacio López del Hierro (i), leave the parliamentary commission that investigates the alleged para-police plot to spy on the former treasurer of the PP Luis Bárcenas in Congress, which has been postponed “sine die” after being charged by the judge who is instructing the case. / Juan Carlos Hidalgo (EFE)
“I am surprised that the Popular Party, that was so active a few days ago, is now so quiet when now the citizenship would deserve an explanation and clear accountability, “he said.
In addition, he has addressed the conservative political organization with harsh words: “it is evidence that the Popular Party has looted public institutions, corruption in Spain has cost us more than 80 billion euros.” Díaz considers that this “is the old thing and what the citizenship does not support.”
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