Post by account_disabled on Mar 12, 2024 21:11:46 GMT -8
The CNC employers' association and the CCOO and UGT unions warn that the construction sector faces "great challenges" to ensure its future, including the shortage of qualified personnel, the "progressive and alarming" aging of its workforce and the lack generational change.
In the 2022 report of the Industrial Observatory of the Construction Labor Foundation, unions and employers warn that this situation "collides" with the high youth unemployment rate for those under 25 years of age, which in Spain is 29.7%.
Thus, and to alleviate the lack of professionals Phone Lead in the sector, employers and unions see it as crucial to attract young people to construction, while calling for promoting the use of relief contracts within the sector.
Specifically, they ask that its use be favored in employment contracts in the execution of work, since they understand that this formula would guarantee both generational change and the transmission of knowledge from veterans to younger workers.
"It is vital for the sector to increase training aimed at qualifying young people and women, as well as the unemployed in the sector and to include the relief contract formula for workers in the construction industry," they insist in the 2022 sector report.
The report concludes that construction shows a "good growth rate" , although below initial expectations due to "uncertainty and volatility" caused by the "high global socioeconomic complexity." However, they affirm that the sector maintains "significant potential" for the future under the umbrella of European funds.
Employers and unions highlight the "very positive" behavior of many of the main economic indicators of construction during 2022, which shows that the sector, one of the engines of the Spanish economy, "is healthy and robust."
Among other indicators, the report highlights the increase in members in the sector by 3.5% during 2022, up to a total of 1,333,189 workers; the rebound in construction companies by 2.5%, to 136,224; the increase in sales of companies in the sector by 1.2%, and the greater contribution of the sector to GDP, which rose to 4.7%.
However, despite the growth in employment and the productive fabric, employers and unions warn of a series of "threats" to the sector, such as the "intense" increase in costs in materials and the "loss of dynamism" in the supply chains. supplies. In this sense, they demand measures from the Administration to alleviate this situation, since it may affect the development of the Recovery Plan.
In the 2022 report of the Industrial Observatory of the Construction Labor Foundation, unions and employers warn that this situation "collides" with the high youth unemployment rate for those under 25 years of age, which in Spain is 29.7%.
Thus, and to alleviate the lack of professionals Phone Lead in the sector, employers and unions see it as crucial to attract young people to construction, while calling for promoting the use of relief contracts within the sector.
Specifically, they ask that its use be favored in employment contracts in the execution of work, since they understand that this formula would guarantee both generational change and the transmission of knowledge from veterans to younger workers.
"It is vital for the sector to increase training aimed at qualifying young people and women, as well as the unemployed in the sector and to include the relief contract formula for workers in the construction industry," they insist in the 2022 sector report.
The report concludes that construction shows a "good growth rate" , although below initial expectations due to "uncertainty and volatility" caused by the "high global socioeconomic complexity." However, they affirm that the sector maintains "significant potential" for the future under the umbrella of European funds.
Employers and unions highlight the "very positive" behavior of many of the main economic indicators of construction during 2022, which shows that the sector, one of the engines of the Spanish economy, "is healthy and robust."
Among other indicators, the report highlights the increase in members in the sector by 3.5% during 2022, up to a total of 1,333,189 workers; the rebound in construction companies by 2.5%, to 136,224; the increase in sales of companies in the sector by 1.2%, and the greater contribution of the sector to GDP, which rose to 4.7%.
However, despite the growth in employment and the productive fabric, employers and unions warn of a series of "threats" to the sector, such as the "intense" increase in costs in materials and the "loss of dynamism" in the supply chains. supplies. In this sense, they demand measures from the Administration to alleviate this situation, since it may affect the development of the Recovery Plan.