Since late 2010, the City of Yecla protects the employment workshop called "Yecla Built."
This is a new initiative in our city, which combines theoretical training sessions and working time practices, targeting a total of 15 students, workers aged between 25 and 55 years of age.
Employment Workshop is directed by M ª Dolores Arques and also participate in it a monitor and two administrative assistants.
"Yecla incorporates" focuses its objectives in education and job training for students, workers and home care aides.
The training contract and service provision is a 40-hour week and a salary of 960 euros per month (corresponding to 150% of minimum wage).
The theoretical training takes place Monday through Friday, at the Centre for Local Development, located in the Industrial Urbayecla II, and since last February 14 tally with the actual tasks of home care, under the coordination and supervision of auxiliary currently provided by the municipal personal care and home help.
The main tasks of this service shall focus on personal care assistance for daily cleaning, medication intake, cleaning the home and the everyday purchases of food and other supplies and there are also particular cases are handled on a temporary and with a more social and educational, requested by disabled people, with social integration difficulties or require support in child care.
The published price for the provision of home help service is set to 9'20 euros, however, from the Municipal Centre of Social Services indicated that "This service is free for 80% of users, though limited income and percentage steps that indicate what is the cost in each particular case and the type of care and frequency of these services, especially when users receive aid under Law of Dependency. "
The council's Employment and Training, Guadalupe Santa believes that the "student-workers are the main beneficiaries of the employment workshop, because they are receiving a specific training while they gain work experience in the field of home care, covering social demand in our city that requires competent and well trained professionals. "
Councilwoman Guadalupe Santa maintains that "the forecast is that the end of the employment workshop, the student-workers start their career in the labor market independently, attending to all users who have requested this service and are currently listed waiting for the provision of home help service. "
Employment Workshop "Yecla incorporates" is funded entirely by the Regional Employment Service and Training, with an amount of 325,000 euros.
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One of the users of home help service, attended by students of the Workshop on Employment, has given permission for this initiative is publicly known.
Francisco López Soriano, 79 years old, will receive next Monday, February 28, the visit of the council's Employment and Training and promoter of the "Yecla incorporates" accompanied by the director of the Workshop on Employment and auxiliary daily serving this user.
Councilwoman Guadalupe Santa appreciates "the generosity of Francisco Soriano, for allowing his home visit, and believes that" this visit is a social and public and, above all, a recognition of the professional value of student-workers Municipal Employment Workshop. "
It is recalled that this initiative is threefold municipal significant: the generation and diversification of local employment career guidance to the area of social policy and attention to a real need and population growth yeclana, support services home.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Yecla