Vice President Karin Herrera, convened a high -level meeting with the private sector to analyze the various labor options, which can be offered to returnees. On February 20, the first meeting between government authorities, businessmen and business cameras was held, as part of the measures to serve migrants returned to the new immigration policies of the United States, among others, to achieve the links to insert them to the labor market .
It was reported that the second meeting is scheduled for March 5.
The home return plan It includes the labor component and within this, the route of action that have called labor intermediation for returned migrants was presented to businessmen and business organizations.
The meeting was headed by the Vice President of the Republic Karin Herrera and the director of the Guatemalan Institute of Migration (IGM) Alfredo Danilo Rivera, with the participation of other government officials and around 40 representatives of business and medium -sized business union.
One of the fundamental axes of the Return to Household Plan is labor intermediation between the Government and the private sector, in order to generate decent and sustainable employment opportunities for those who return to the country, officials explained in a statement and interviews provided by the Communication offices, since they indicated that there would be no access to journalists to the meeting.
Rivera announced what are the professions and offices identified, as well as the skills and abilities reported by migrants upon returning, Among others, he mentioned administrators, farmers, builders, pilots, housewives, as well as construction personnel, chefs or kitchen industry, gardeners, painters, janitors, counters, seamstress, electricians.
The manifesto of interest was also announced, which consists of Fill a form aimed at companies willing to provide a job opportunity For returned migrants, said the official.
However, he clarified that the data of Returned migrants will be provided to companies only if these people authorized it.
Subsequently to these meetings, the Unit for the Protection and Reintegration of Returned Migrants of the IGM will contact entrepreneurs to completely complete the technical details about the profiles that your company seeks, its geographical location and how to connect the talent with opportunities, It was added.
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At the March meeting, companies will be discussed into an employment fair, opportunities, entrepreneurship, certification and access to education, health, and psychosocial care, aimed at this population segment, in addition the monitoring and monitoring and The form of the labor insertion of at least 600 Guatemalans returned.
Interest and business support
The businessman Michael E. Ascoli, expressed himself in a positive way that he works together to look for a job opportunity.
He added that in the country there is enough work, however there are several measures that must be implemented: Help them apply to a job, link companies with them, help them financially for the first months.
Fanny de Estrada, Director of Institutional Relations of the Guatemalan Association of Exporters (AGEXPORT), said that representatives of this entity participated in the meeting, in which a lot of presence of camera companies and government entities were observed.
On the one hand there is the need to have a human resource before labor scasses in Guatemala and On the other hand, the people who are arriving will look for a job opportunity.
According to Estrada, a will, sense of responsibility and commitment to support.
Among the skills mentioned by the IGM, he said that it was detected that within the groups of returned people There are 648 who speak English, and another group that does not speak it, but they understand, So you can have the opportunity to be trained to take them to the level of English required to attend export services, including Call Center and BPO. According to Estrada, in addition the largest volume of people who have returned are related to construction -related skills, carpenters, and some farmers.
According to the agexport directive The INTECAP already took a step forward and assigned Q30 million And it already has the methodology that will be implemented to certify them in the types of programs they will offer to train.
He added that in this regard a survey was made to returned migrants, but it is reflected that they do not have many concerns to receive training but the executive considers that it may be because they are just reaching the country and even later look for options, for which it will be important to make The links.
In the case of the AGEXport sector, it has detected that it requires a lot of labor in sectors that require English, technology, costumes and textiles mainly clothing as well as pilots.
The organization will collect information about the ages and types of skills that companies require, While the government can map what ages, experience and capacity have returned people to achieve the links.
Lucrecia Monzón, Executive of Magic Touch and Transmagic Halls, said that this type of meetings is important because it showed the union of various companies from all branches, also which are needing labor, and mentions that it is a mutual need.
“With proposals and short roads for all migrants we will achieve many things and be able to integrate them into society, and companies benefit from their workforce,” he said, adding that it is important to work together for between government and private sector to provide them job opportunities and a dignified life in the country.
Meanwhile, the Executive Director of the Agro Chamber of Guatemala (Camagro), Carla Caballeros replied that he is out of the country, but that with the other business chambers they presented as Cacif, the extraordinary temporary program for the labor reintegration of the returned nationals.
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This consists of training program and labor certifications through Intecap, with the resources provided by private sector companies, approach of supply and demand through the employment bags of the sectors and includes the employment fair of Cacif Young, Entrepreneurship support in coordination with other cooperation entities and projectsexplained Caballeros.
The vice president of the Republic said that due to the impact that migrations for Guatemala have, being a place of origin, destination and transit of migratory flows, it is necessary to address the situation as a country issue, with will and solidarity and “it is there where the Private sector can play a vital role to contribute several objectives that we must draw: First, promote opportunities for the social and economic reintegration of returned migrants. ”
The Minister and Vice Minister of Labor, the Vice Minister of Economy and the INTECAP representative, also participated.