Sagunto town hall hires five unemployed people through Labora
Sagunto town hall has hired five unemployed people through three Labora (the Valencian regional employment service) programmes, with a total investment of 126,134 euros to support their return to work and social inclusion.
Sagunto town hall welcomed five unemployed people this week who were hired through three separate Labora programmes, the public employment service run by the Valencian regional government. The project, focused on job placement and social inclusion, involves a total investment of 126,134 euros, of which 97,498 euros comes from regional funding and the rest from the town hall itself.
Labora is the current name of the former Servicio Valenciano de Empleo y Formación (SERVEF, Valencian Employment and Training Service), an autonomous body created by the regional government in 2000 and renamed Labora under a decree passed at the end of 2020. Under this name, it now runs most of the employment programmes aimed at people who face bigger barriers to finding work.
The three hiring routes serve different goals. Through ETRAME, a nine-month contract was arranged for one person referred by the intervention team of the Mental Health Care and Follow-up Service (SASEM), a scheme designed to help people with mental health difficulties into work. The EMCORP programme brought in two people under 30 for ten months, to carry out public-interest works and services spread across different town hall departments. And through EMDONA, two unemployed women were hired, also for ten months, under a programme aimed at closing the gender gap in access to employment.
Mayor Darío Moreno and the councillor for Economic Development, Raúl Palmero, welcomed the five new hires last Wednesday. Moreno defended the value of this kind of programme despite the cuts they have faced in recent years, and called for funding to return to previous levels. Palmero, meanwhile, stressed their value as a first work experience and a path to social inclusion for people who struggle most to find a job.
For unemployed residents in Sagunto, the announcement confirms that the town hall continues to back this kind of partnership with Labora as an entry point into the job market, particularly for profiles facing the biggest barriers: people with mental health difficulties, young people without prior experience, or women looking to re-enter the workforce. The town hall has not announced further hiring rounds within these same programmes for now, though it has repeated its intention to keep working with the regional government to improve the professional skills of unemployed residents.
According to aytosagunto.es and elperiodic.com, with additional background from Wikipedia on Labora's origin as the former SERVEF.