The Government is going to launch the Activa.pt program next week, which intends to face the unemployment numbers and the evolution they may have, announced today the minister Ana Mendes Godinho.
During a visit to the company Olano Portugal, located in the Guarda Business Initiative Logistics Platform, the minister of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security said that the program had planned 160 million euros in support.
"We really want, through these public incentives, to be the vehicles to support companies in hiring people, at a time when it is critical to have some capacity to respond to the unemployment numbers we are experiencing," he said.
The logistics and transport sector was one of those in which Covid-19 had the least impact in terms of unemployment, but, globally, on Thursday there were 384 people registered in employment centers across the continent.
"In February, we had about 293 people registered, so there are about 100 more people," said Ana Mendes Godinho, adding that, in the same period, there were also "about 100 people with active contributions to Social Security ».
According to the minister, with this program, the Government wants, on the one hand, to provide "support for the training and retraining of people, namely unemployed, to strategic areas in which there is a job search at the moment", such as "digital, technological transition , green economy and social area».
On the other hand, he added, the Government wants to give "support for hiring, namely of young people", who were very affected by unemployment.
"About a third of the new unemployed are young," said the official.
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