The Generalitat of Catalunya give to €2.1 million to the D-Hubinstalled on the former grounds of nissan in Barcelona, to provide training between 800 and 900 workers. The company installed in the Free Zone It is preparing its facilities to start assembling electric vehicles and the Catalan administration has given it an injection so that it can recycle employees accustomed to manufacturing combustion cars.
At the moment it barely has a little more than 100 employees hired, so the request for said aid confirms its planning to hire up to 800 more workers within a year. Under penalty of having to return those 2.1 million euros if he does not execute a minimum of 60% of said formations. Its public commitment is to reach the 1,000 workers on staff in this temporary period, which covers part of the 2,500 direct jobs that Nissan maintained before its closure.
That check of 2.1 million euros, which must be spent on training modules between 30 and 60 hours To be taught until the summer of 2024, it is part of a broader pioneering program that the Department of Labor has presented this Friday. Subsidized training programs are usually carried out through intermediaries. Calls for public money are advertised, training centers take the lot, then they open places to teach approved courses and the workers or unemployed sign up.
Now him Labor Department He has turned the sock around with his program ‘Conforcat to measure‘. Eliminate this intermediary and allow you to personalize the contents by writing a check directly to companies or business entities. And then they are the ones who decide what training they provide to their employees according to their particular needs. For example, a company that intends to create a new production line and to do so, train part of its staff for it. That is where the check from the Generalitat comes in, which covers part or all of the cost.
376 participants
In this pioneering program of the Generalitat, 376 companies will participate, already signed up and without the possibility, until next year, of increasing said number. They will receive a variable check based on the training needs they have expressed. The total budget enabled is €28.8 million and the one who has squeezed the most out of the program is the D-Hub, with that demand of 2.1 million euros. The average check that these 376 companies will receive will be €76,000 and the most common training will be to adapt to technological changes.
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“Conforcat a mida is an innovative and successful program that consolidates the Government’s commitment to the continuous training of working people”, declared the Minister of Empresa i Treball, Roger Torrent, this Friday in an act at the Palau de Pedralbes. “We will make the payment of 100% of the financing granted at the time of the resolution, that is, the company will have the money before starting the training,” he added.
The training will be able to start from August and the companies will receive the check from September. They will receive it all at once and then the Labor Department will watch that they spend it on what they say they were going to spend it on and not on something else. To do this, it will visit at least 25% of the participating companies, in addition to being able to connect anonymously to the telematic training and ex post monitoring of the trained workers. Participating companies must spend a minimum of 60% of the amount requested if they do not want to have to pay it all back.