Youth Employment Plan approved for the Council of Ministers

The Council of Ministers has approved an Agreement approving the Youth Employment Plan. This Youth Employment Choke Plan has received the unanimous support of the social dialogue table. It expects, among other results, reducing the youth unemployment rate to 23.5%, and that 168,000 unemployed under the age of 25 will enter the labour market.

However, all the commitments derived from the application of this Youth Employment Plan are conditioned to the existing budgetary availabilities in the years 2019, 2020 and 2021, in accordance with the fiscal consolidation path set by the Government. In the case of the actions included in this Plan for which the Autonomous Communities are competent, what is included in the Plan will be optional.

The plan, which focuses on the problems affecting the group of young people, establishes the implementation of measures to improve labour integration. It also focuses on the most vulnerable groups, with actions that act on the gender gap, the rural environment and the demographic challenge, the young migrant population, and that take into account social and technological changes.

The measures it includes are related to the Sustainable Development Objectives of Agenda 2030 and serve to achieve Target 8.6 of the Objectives “By 2020, to reduce considerably the proportion of young people who are not employed and do not study or receive training”.

Youth Employment Plan

Objectives of the Plan

Establish a quality employment framework and dignity at work.
To make young people protagonists in their process of labour insertion and qualification.
To increase the qualification and labour insertion providing young people with more professional competences.
Promote a new economic model based on productivity and added value.
Provide the Public Employment Services with the means and resources to provide adequate and individualized attention.
Eliminate horizontal segregation and the gender wage gap.
Combat the discouragement of young people
Pay special attention to the most vulnerable groups (migrants, the long-term unemployed, people with disabilities, etc.).

Expected results

To reduce the youth unemployment rate to 23.5% in the three years of validity. Reducing the number of unemployed children under 25 by 168,000.
Increase the activity rate of young people between the ages of 20 and 29 to 73.5%.
Reduce by 20% the current gender gap in registered unemployment among persons under 30 years of age.
To increase the number of indefinite contracts by 15% each year. Reaching 2,900,000 hires during the three years as a whole.
Achieve that at least 43% (100,000) of young people registered as unemployed and who do not have a degree in Compulsory Secondary Education acquire, through training programmes, the key competences in Language and Mathematics. Promote training in language skills.
Ensure that at least 225,000 young people are trained in digital skills. 75% in basic skills and 25% in higher skills. Which represent 40% and 38% respectively of the young population under 30 years of age.
Train 25% (40,000) of young people in skills in strategic sectors (25% of the group of young people with higher education and vocational training).

Conclusions

The Youth Employment Plan is structured around six axes: orientation, training, employment opportunities, equality, entrepreneurship and improvement of the institutional framework. It also consists of fifty measures with a comprehensive and systematic perspective, which can be combined and adjusted to each profile.

The Youth Employment Plan will be valid for 3 years. The total cost is estimated at 2,000 million euros. It will mainly affect the Ministry of Labour, Migration and Social Security, through the State Employment Public Service. In the year 2019 the endowment is 670 million, and in the 2020-2021 budgets the rest will be allocated.

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