The Government of the Balearic Islands approved this Friday three new lines of aid so that small businesses that they have less than 50 employees can create their equality plans. These plans are a set of mandatory measures for some SMEs whose mission is to guarantee equal treatment and opportunities for women and men in the company.
The Department of Business, Employment and Energy, through the General Directorate of Labor and Occupational Health, has launched the call for grants aimed at implementing equality plans in companies and entities, and at promoting and promoting equality actions and advice for the execution of these measures. This initiative has a budget of one million euros.
The total budgeted amount will be distributed through three programs, depending on the type of beneficiarywhether it is a business or organization and whether or not it is obliged to keep this obligation up to date.
Three lines of aid for small businesses to implement equality plans
The aid lines are divided as follows:
- program 1 It has an allocation of 350,000 euros and its objective is to promote the voluntary implementation of equality plans in companies or any other entity with a workforce of less than 50 workers.
- The program 2 It has a budget of 350,000 euros and is aimed at facilitating the implementation or renewal of these plans in companies and organizations required to prepare and register them.
- Finally, program 3, Financed with 300,000 euros, it is aimed at supporting equality actions, promoting and advising on the implementation of equality plans by business and union organizations in the Balearic Islands.
In this sense, the Minister of Business, Employment and Energy, Alejandro Saénz de San Pedro, explained that “with the implementation of these three lines of subsidies “We give a push and help companies and entities to develop their equality plans.”
The general director of Labor and Occupational Health, Catalina Cabrer, highlighted that “we take another step to achieve equal treatment and opportunities between men and women and to eliminate discrimination based on sex in companies in the Islands. With this aid we promote the implementation of equality plans throughout the business fabric of the Balearic Islands. In addition, for the first time, companies or entities can benefit from these subsidies. with less than 50 workerswho can implement equality plans voluntarily”.
The call is open to those businesses or entities with registered office or work center in the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. For programs 1 and 2, the total workforce of the company will be taken into account, regardless of the number of the company’s work centers and regardless of the form of employment contract, including people with discontinuous permanent contracts.
Source: www.autonomosyemprendedor.es
