Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Havana, Jan 11.- Cuba today gives a high priority to the development of actions to enhance employment and care for young people who study or work and live in families in vulnerable conditions.
According to the Minister of Labor and Social Security, Marta Elena Feitó, these efforts are part of the Policy for the Comprehensive Care of Children, Adolescents and Youth in Cuba, approved last July in the National Assembly of People's Power.
In statements to the press the day before, after a meeting led by President Miguel Díaz-Canel to check this initiative, the official pointed out that the focus of such actions is dominated by the search for transformation and not welfare.
She highlighted that more than 60 percent of the people who accessed job offers last year were young people, a trend that, he said, also marked the participation in training courses, with a figure greater than 62 percent of Cubans registering. at these ages.
It is a modality that we will continue working on and promoting in the next period, she stated at the meeting held at the Palace of the Revolution (headquarters of the Executive).
According to the Presidency of Cuba on its website, Feitó highlighted the survey carried out by the University Student Federation in Higher Education institutions, to identify young people with families in vulnerable situations, and the rescue of those who have quit their studies.
Other actions to be implemented have as their main focus students who are looking for alternatives to achieve economic income during the period in which they study their specialties, mostly in tasks not related to the profiles of the careers where they are trained, she added.
Feitó also commented that the strategy must be aimed at carrying out different actions to incorporate this force into jobs associated with their profiles and thus take advantage of their talent and training in higher-skilled jobs.
It also meant that the Decree Law on Maternity for female workers, approved last year, includes protection for mothers at an early age who are studying, and contemplates the right to receive all the benefits included in the legal norm.
She pointed out that it is also a priority to address the issue of young people in informal jobs, where, according to the minister, there is not always all the protection and guarantees for the exercise of the work they do, which requires continuing to delve deeper into this issue that It also includes employers.
Regarding this aspect, she indicated that all people who work in this area must demand a formalization of their work situation. (Text and photo: PL)
