Mijas closed last year with 2,161 fewer unemployed than in 2020 when the pandemic produced figures of almost 10,000 unemployed in the municipality. The figure, which is close to the 2019 unemployment rate, was announced on Thursday 17th by the town’s Mayor, Josele González (PSOE), and the Councillor for Employment Promotion, Laura Moreno (PSOE).
“If in 2020 we reached a very negative figure of almost 10,000 unemployed in the municipality, by the end of 2021 we have data that puts us practically at the levels of unemployment we had before the pandemic, some 7,787 unemployed, a figure that represents a drop in unemployment in our municipality in just one year of more than 2,100 people. The prospects for 2022 are not only to reach the same unemployment figures as in 2019, after two very hard years of a pandemic but to improve them,” said González, who considered 2022 and 2023 as the years of “economic recovery”. 

More permanent contracts
The decrease in the number of unemployed was accompanied by 3.3% more permanent contracts throughout 2021, when half a thousand companies were able to open their doors in the town. According to the Councillor, these figures stimulate and support the active employment policies being developed by the Mijas Town Hall. From the Basic Income plans for people in a situation of social exclusion, the Mijas Impulsa programme, with a hiring rate of more than 64 per cent, the agreements that we promote with private entities whose priority is to hire unemployed Mijeños and Mijeñas, to the OREA Plan and the Cometha Plan, which have benefited almost 4,000 self-employed and family businesses in the municipality and have ensured that many of these jobs are not destroyed.
For the head of Employment Promotion these figures “are no coincidence” but the result of these active employment policies to which the Councillor referred. He emphasised the good figures of the Mijas Impulsa programme, for which two million euros have been allocated for 19 training actions, “of which 15 have had a certificate of professionalism”, and which has a high rate of recruitment, which translates into “about 180 people hired through this programme”. 
They also highlighted the AIRE Plan, with which 132 people have been recruited. Besides, the external employment exchange, which has resulted in 21 contracts, the companies agreements, such as La Zambra Hotel, which will bear fruit this summer; the Andalucía Orienta programme, which has helped more than 900 people.

Users of the Mijas impulsa programme who have been hired speak out
Fernando Ruiz - Two years working in Tejeringos 
Ten o’clock in the morning, Fernando Ruiz doesn’t stop at Tejeringos. He takes orders on the terrace, inside, cleans tables and goes to the till to get paid. But he doesn’t lose his smile, because he loves his job, the one he got almost two years ago, after doing his internship in the same cafeteria as part of the Mijas Impulsa programme’s catering course. “I am now permanent after signing my third contract and I hope to be here for many more years”, he said, thanking the Fomento del Empleo for giving him the opportunity to do this course. “Thanks to this I am here today working; first I did my internship in a hotel in Mijas Pueblo and then I came here to finish it”, he explained. The manager of Tejeringos, José Manuel Barba, assured that he will continue to be part of this collaboration agreement with the council. “The experience has been very good and we will continue to collaborate every time we have the opportunity.... If they are punctual and if they are willing to work, they will have the job because we have work to give them”, he said.

 

Cindy Morales - Hired after two months 
At the beginning of the year, Cindy Morales, who completed the Administrative Assistant course, joined Roali Cash & Carry after completing her internship at the company in October. Months after finishing the course, she says she is “happy with the teachers” and “what they taught her”. “I thought it was going to be different and the expectations have been more than I had hoped for”, she affirmed. This training has opened up new paths for her: “I had been looking for work for a long time, like many people, because there isn’t any, and the course has opened other doors for me because I used to do other things”, she added. “I was lucky that they liked me and called me”, concluded Morales, who has been hired for three months. Roali advocates this training formula that combines theory with work experience in a company: “I think it’s very good that they complement their studies with work experience and that they have a broad vision of what they have studied”, said Natalia Gambero, the manager of Roali Cash & Carry.

 

Susana Guerrero - Six months in Garden La Palma 
Susana Guerrero has been working at the Garden La Palma nursery for six months now, after training in the gardening course, also part of Mijas Impulsa. “I am happy, I am very grateful to the course, as the instructors put me in touch with the nursery”, said this woman, who claims to have learned “a lot” in the theoretical part of her training but also in the practical part: “I have learned a lot here, and I am delighted with the company, with the bosses and with my colleagues”, stressed Guerrero, who, without a doubt, recommends the unemployed in the municipality to sign up for this training and employment programme. “I encourage anyone who finds themselves in a situation where it is difficult to get ahead to go to Fomento del Empleo, to get information because there are a lot of courses, they help you and they get involved with you personally and do everything they can to help you,” Guerrero said from her workplace.

 

Leroy Merlin - Eight Collaborating with Mijas 
More and more local companies are collaborating with the Mijas Impulsa programme developed by Mijas Town Hall. Leroy Merlin Mijas is one of them. For almost eight years now, the company has subscribed to this initiative based on training and practical courses. Its director, Andrés Quesada, assures that both entities come out as winners. “The experience is always very positive; for us as a company, it gives us access to people who, while we are training them, we are getting to know them and they get to know us, something which also allows us to incorporate some of these people into our workforce every year”, he said, adding: “practically every year, we have hired these students who arrive after completing this training process”. Quesada also assured that Leroy Merlin Mijas will maintain this commitment. In fact, this week it has welcomed four trainees from the Logistics course that is now being taught.

 

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