The program workforce OPEA (Guidance Actions for Employment and Self-Employment Assistance) has carried out this morning a protest outside the headquarters of the SEF, which has been reported to the public on the main program suppression guidance for the unemployed in the region.
It has also requested a meeting with the head of the Ministry of Education, Training and Employment, to explain the reasons for the cancellation.
From this group we can not understand how, unemployment being the main problem in the region, the deletion of a program that has contrasted his excellent performance during its 15 years of existence, more than 30,000 people attended in the last year, and in which , as indicated by either Minister of Education, Training and Employment, Constantine Sotoca have achieved a job within three months, 20% of its users.
In addition, the program's demise means not only OPEA interrupting pathways and the abandonment of unemployed users served, but the destruction of about 150 jobs Technical Guidance and the disappearance therefore reference for tutors of all people served from the service.
Source: SIME