The Government recognized the lack of young people trained to work: 'It is a problem that must be overcome'

08/05/2021 11:08

• Clarín.com

• Economy

Updated 08/05/2021 02:10 PM

The Minister of Productive Development, Matías Kulfas, made a kind of mea culpa about the claim that the Toyota company made days ago when raising the difficulty

of finding 200 people with full secondary school to incorporate into its production plant.

"What happened in Toyota shows the problems that we have to overcome.

We have a huge challenge with the Minister of Education.

Welcome that this is on the agenda,

how do we get children to enter the labor market," he

said

.

For Kulfas, "these are part of the challenges we have going forward: how to find the necessary job qualification, how to complement, how to train".

And he added:

"Just yesterday I had a meeting at the Union of Mechanics and Related Automotive Transport (Smata) and we were talking about this issue."

Along the same lines, the minister indicated that as part of the same line, 

last week they announced the "Te Sumo"

plan, designed for the reintegration of young people into work.

"We seek to go to the sector hardest hit by unemployment," he

said.

And he added: "This plan has a very strong incentive, where there is a contribution from the State to cover part of the payment of salaries, reductions in contributions and contributions."

"There are always things to do and improve, but we are working on a scheme where there are new incentives. There are many SMEs that are in the process of recovery," he said.

In any case, Kulfas pointed out:

"We are talking about 200 jobs, let's also talk about all the positions that were filled.

Since the end of the confinement, there are already 45,000 jobs in the industrial sector and the automotive sector had a huge challenge and it brought in a lot of new people to work. "

In addition, the minister assured that they are seeing a recovery in two speeds. “We come from a period without a doubt that real wages have been very hit, 2018 and 2019, two years of very strong recession and then the pandemic.

And we are in a two-way recovery process

. First, employment is growing again in various sectors, including

industry and construction, which are leading the recovery in employment, along with the knowledge economy, which are the most dynamic sectors

. And at the same time generating instances of salary renegotiation, the parities are being discussed, and the objective is that this year the salary will beat inflation ”, he explained.

In this sense, the minister added: “Later, many sectors with stimulus policies.

I highlight the case of the industry because it is a sector that had been very hit before the pandemic, the

48-month

government of

Mauricio Macri who ruled in 46 there was destruction of industrial employment.

Today we have an industrial sector that despite the pandemic is producing more than in 2019. It is a change of model, of production model ”.

Regarding the recovery in the sectors most affected by the pandemic such as tourism, gastronomy and other activities that depend more on presence, Kulfas said that

recovery will depend on vaccination and greater certainty about the epidemiological situation.

"This economy that today has two speeds coexists with affected sectors that when they begin to have

more certainty, the growth rate begins to unify,

" he said.

On inflation, he assured that

"what we experienced was a very strong international shock"

and that "in an economy like Argentina, such a hit, has a very strong impact on prices."

"Between September of last year and June of this year, raw materials increased by 52% in the world," said Kulfas in dialogue with Radio Continental.

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