Successive and coordinated measures will also be implemented within the
scope of this latter aspect of promoting employment, such as support for hiring
and incentives aimed at encouraging entrepreneurship.
The measures to promote employment will not overlook those facing difficulties
in the labour market, either because they are unemployed individuals from
sectors which have been affected by the crisis or because they are
experiencing adverse socioeconomic or personal conditions.
Diverse measures, included in the Azores Agenda for Employment and
Corporate Competitiveness, will place unemployed individuals in traineeships
which will help them reconvert their skills and promote professional mobility.
The necessary support for contracting will subsequently be provided.
Four programmes have been envisaged for the social employment market. One
is aimed at unemployed individuals experiencing situations of exclusion while
the other three programmes are aimed at disabled individuals, with support
being provided to establish self-employed activities, hiring incentives and
assistance for the technical-functional adaptation of workplaces.
Occupational activities also play an important role in instilling work habits in
individuals who, for various reasons, are not familiar with such habits. These
coincide with areas of public interest, such as support for social activities,
education and protecting and promoting the Region’s environmental and
cultural heritage.
Another no less relevant aspect is to keep individuals receiving unemployment
benefits occupied, both in order to ensure additional income for them and their
families as well as to maintain an active quest for employment as a tool to
combat situations of unemployment.
Another noteworthy initiative is the implementation of the “Cradle of
Employment” programme as a tool to help women enter the labour market. This
programme places other women (who receive a subsidy) in jobs which are
vacant due to maternity leave, without additional costs for employers. This tool
helps consolidate the notion that hiring women will not entail a loss in
productivity.