The territorial delegate of Employment, Enterprise and Self-Employment, Amos Garcia Hueso, has formalized this Thursday, the collaboration agreement with companies that will collaborate with the school of Marble Fines, training center attached to the Andalusian Employment Service (SAE), for its students to perform practices. The meeting was also attended by the deputy mayor of Fines, José Manuel López Oliver, the president of the Association of Marble Entrepreneurs of Andalusia (AEMA), Jesús Posadas, and the students of the training itineraries that are currently being taught: artistic, artisanal and industrial carving of natural stone and derivatives; management and maintenance of mining machinery in open pit mining; and management and programming of numerical control machinery, to which the delegate has delivered diplomas of various training modules.
Amós García thanked the companies “for their involvement so that the students of the school can know the real work in the marble sector and complete their preparation to access the labor market knowing the way of working, values and skills required in companies, in addition to putting into practice their knowledge” and reported that “practices have been extended to all training activities of the school”. He has also highlighted as a novelty that companies can apply for “the aid that the Ministry of Employment offers as compensation for hosting students in practices, thus responding to their request” and has informed them that in compliance with the new state regulations that came into force in January, from the SAE will be discharged from the Social Security to students in practices.
García Hueso has expressed the willingness of “the Delegation of Employment, the SAE and the Marble School to public-private collaboration. We want to promote projects that involve improving the employability of citizens and the competitiveness of enterprises, knowing firsthand their needs in this case in terms of training of qualified professionals, to respond with an appropriate training program”.
In this sense, he recalled the training needs detection studies that are carried out from the SAE and explained that “it is intended to streamline this process to make it more dynamic, offering direct advice in emerging sectors that may be somehow related to the extractive industry.” “We have a line of work open constantly, analyzing possible ways of interaction with the different companies, entities, public and private, public administrations present in the territory, etc., to adapt this programming to the real needs existing in the region and in the sector in general, and of course, to the incipient needs that can mean growth possibilities”, has abounded the delegate of Employment.
At the meeting, García Hueso also indicated that the Marble School, as a National Reference Center of Natural Stone, “has the mission to innovate and experiment in the FP for Employment within the family of extractive industries, in line with the needs that arise, and especially we are committed to the evolution towards innovation in research and training in sustainability and circular economy in the sector. In addition, he pointed out that the School “is already working to expand the training offer to related sectors and to adapt to the new vocational training model, which involves a firm commitment to Dual Vocational Training”.
On the other hand, he has informed the business representatives that the Marble School of Fines is a permanent seat of accreditation of skills for workers who have not completed formal studies in the stone sector and other sectors, but who have the necessary knowledge and skills due to their work experience or because they have been trained outside the official system.
Training for the employed and training contracts in alternation.
He also announced that this course will be developed in collaboration with companies in the sector two training activities in ‘Design and prototyping of parts in 2D’ and ‘CAD-CAM programming of 3D solids and handling of numerical control machines for the manufacture of products’ “to update the knowledge of 30 workers” and that the school “will be the first in Andalusia to provide training programs in alternating training contracts for young people, a very interesting training modality for both the unemployed and for companies because it combines training and work”, also with 30 places available.
Amós García has also advanced the forthcoming publication of a new order endowed with 145 million in Andalusia to encourage the permanent hiring of young and unemployed vulnerable groups by SMEs and self-employed, to be applied retroactively for hires made since March 1. He also encouraged companies to get to know the Program of professional experiences for employment, which provides non-working professional internships for 3 months to unemployed people from vulnerable groups.
Finally, he announced that the SAE is finalizing “a new portfolio of services to companies, within the framework of the new Integrated Management Model that we are implementing, making it a more modern, telematic and closer service, in line with the spirit of the Andalusian Government to simplify and automate bureaucratic procedures for the productive fabric as an effective way to boost business activity, and, in the field of occupational risk prevention, has advanced that in May the new mobile information unit on occupational health and safety of the Ministry of Employment will visit the industrial area of Macael to “bring the resources available to the Board for companies and workers, so that they can implement preventive measures in their work environments.
Collaborating companies
From May 15, the students of the itinerary of artistic, artisanal and industrial carving of natural stone and derivatives will begin their 125 hours of non-working professional practices in the companies Garcimar Artesanos SCA, Cosentino Industrial SAU, Luis García Blesa and Natural Stone Tino SL, as well as Fundación Los Carrilles. In June, the students of the itinerary of handling and maintenance of mining machinery in open-pit mining exploitations will carry out their internships in Reverté Productos Minerales SA, Saint-Gobain Placo Ibérica SA, Cosentino Industrial SAU, Stone Seller SL, Valero y Alarcón and Mármoles Naturales Macael SL. The practices of the students of the itinerary of programming and handling of numerical control machinery will make the practices from September.
The delegate of Employment has given to the representatives of the entities a badge in appreciation of their collaboration, and has also delivered the diplomas certifying having passed the training in digital skills to students of the itinerary of artistic, artisanal and industrial carving and in occupational risk prevention to students of the itinerary of programming and handling of numerical control machinery.