The creation of the Regional Council of Self-Employment and the implementation of the generational replacement plan for the sector are the main lines of Agreement II of the Committee of Self-Employed Workers of Castilla y León for the Promotion of Self-Employment. Self-employmentwhich was signed this Monday by the Minister of Industry, Trade and EmploymentLeticia Garciain collaboration with Atacyl and Tradecyl, with the premise of working “immediately” to “expand the channels of dialogue and translate it into concrete commitments”.
with signature said table is reactivatedwhich has not met since June 2022, and will be marked by “collaboration”. García clarified that the Council would involve “multilateral participation” which will be developed through a decree agreed with the sector, where the composition, functions and representativeness of the associations will be determined.
The second step is based on generational change, a plan that “attempts to avoid the closure of a business this can happen because their owners reach retirement age”, Castilla y León being the autonomy with the greatest percentage of self-employed workers over 55, around 40 percent, as well as the one with the least young people in this sector, he stressed.
“Successful” exit from employment
“Entrepreneurship must be promoted and stimulated by young people to be considered as a successful job opportunity across all sectors, including emerging sectors, in line with support for self-employment. All this accompanied by measures aimed at “consolidating the fabric with the modernization of businesses» and share synergies between all for “global support for the self-employed”.
In this regard, the President of ATA in the Community, Leticia Mingueza, conveyed her congratulations for the launch of the Council as “college body” and considered that “it is essential that they listen to us” because in Castile and León “we have 184,000 independents, “They are creators of wealth and potential generators of jobs with a fundamental role in the economy and in the territory.”
He lamented that the reality is that “we continue to lose self-employed workers.” It is for this reason that it has been requested to encourage the role of women in rural areas, because They are “population fixers”, In addition to asking to give visibility to the sector so that young people have “references for the present and the future”, he added, reports Ical. For her part, the director of Tradecyl, Ana María Vallejo, clarified that this second agreement “It’s more necessary than ever” and thanked the ministry for “this change of attitude”.
