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José Ballesta presents the first direct employment aid aimed at all those SMEs, freelancers and cooperatives in the municipality to conduct permanent contracts and give work to people unemployed for at least six months.
Today opens the deadline to apply for municipal aid, whose total budget amounts to 307,000 euros, and will remain open until September 30.
The Mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, and the Councillor for Employment, Tourism and Culture, Jesus Pacheco, presented this morning direct employment intended to boost recruitment of unemployed people in the municipality of Murcia and promote stable employment aid through direct to small and medium enterprises, autonomous and cooperative grants.
"This is a new line of subsidy set off for the first time since the city of Murcia and has two objectives: firstly, promoting quality jobs with permanent contracts and, secondly, to provide new job opportunities to those Murcia people who are currently unemployed, offering local businesses, which are those that actually create jobs, a stimulus for recruitment, "said José Ballesta.
Today the term which will remain open until 30 September- opens to apply for these grants, whose total budget amounts to 307,000 euros, and can access them all those SMEs, micro, autonomous, cooperatives, nonprofit entities, integration enterprises and social economy based in the municipality of Murcia, who hire an unemployed person for a minimum of six months to formalize new permanent contracts or transform temporary into permanent.
The contracts covered by the aid must be given effect before 30 September.
They can also benefit from the subsidy which formalizasen since last June 1.
"We seek the transformation of the indefinite temporary and we hope many contracts can be extended summer thanks to these grants," said the mayor.
Young people and people over 45: age priority segments
The process of granting aid is through competitive basis, with a minimum amount of 1,200 euros per worker for a temporary contract of six months to half a day to 6,000 euros per worker full-time permanent contract.
In all cases, if the young person hired is under 30 or is 45 or older, grants 20% increase.
If you belong to the group with special difficulties of employability, support 40% increase.
Contracts may be full or part-time (if half a day, a minimum of 20 hours per week).
With respect to indefinite, they must have a duration of not less than one year.
Recruitment must involve the creation of jobs on average total workforce of the company.
The final amount of aid may not exceed 50% of the sum of labor costs and social security of people hired.
Murcia recorded the lowest unemployment figure since 2010
José Ballesta also assessed the latest data on the employment situation in the muncicipio, published by the Public State Employment Service (SEPE).
"Unemployment has decreased in Murcia this past July for the fifth consecutive month and stood 9.2% below that recorded in July 2015," the mayor, who reported that "it is the number of registered unemployment lowest in the city since January 2010. "
Thus, the number of unemployed stood at 34,952, representing a decrease of 2,121 people over last March, the month in which began to consolidate the fall in unemployment in the municipality of Murcia;
"A trend that has continued to date, and over five consecutive months, resulting in the formalization of 19,385 new employment contracts only last July," he said.
In this sense, the mayor added that "we are not satisfied, but the realization that nearly 3,000 people have found jobs in the last 12 months is a positive record, as well as the increase of 7,500 people in affiliation to social security ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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