The right to decent work: Mescladís joins the ECAS demand for a new model of labor insertion.

The demands of the social entities to establish a new model of consultation in active employment policies in Catalonia reach the public administration

In view of the suppression of the SINGULARS employment program, the Commission of Social and Labor Insertion of ECAS (Catalan Entities of Social Action) has delivered the document The role of social entities in active employment policies: Towards a new model of consultation? to the SOC management, to the Secretariat of Labor and to the General Directorate of Social and Solidarity Economy and Cooperativism.

The 67 entities of the Commission for Social and Labor Insertion of ECAS have launched a campaign that vindicates the basic right of people to have access to a decent job, as well as the essential role of social entities in the promotion of quality employment.

Barcelona, July 9, 2025 - Social entities continue to note that the Government is not responding firmly to the growing inequality that they have been denouncing for some time, and they are calling for progress towards a complementary role between public administrations and social entities in the deployment of active employment policies.

For this reason, the Commission of Social and Labor Insertion of ECAS (Catalan Entities of Social Action) has delivered the document The role of social entities in active employment policies: Towards a new model of consultation? to the director of the SOC, Francesc Castellana; to the secretary of Labor, Paco Ramos; and to the general director of Social and Solidarity Economy and Cooperativism, David Bonvehí. The document highlights the need to incorporate a social perspective in employment policies that guarantees personalized responses for groups with particularly complex situations. This implies reinforcing spaces for dialogue and co-construction of public policies, as well as providing more resources for social and labor insertion programs.

ECAS has already received the first reactions to the document: social entities and the administration will continue talks to analyze the current situation of the most vulnerable groups in the labor market and consider joint lines of action.

Despite the general context of economic prosperity and the high level of employment in Catalonia, 10% of the population, although working, is at risk of poverty, as a result of the increasing precariousness of working conditions and the rising cost of living. To this context must be added the exclusion or difficulties of various groups in accessing the labor market.

"It is necessary to make visible a double reality: that of people who cannot access the labor market and that of those who, even if they do, do not escape from precariousness. Access to a decent job is not a privilege, it is a right."
- Mariona Puigdellívol, director of ECAS

Social entities have recently learned that the SOC will stop promoting the employment program SINGULARS, which annually accompanies more than 3,500 young people without employment or studies. In addition, other public programs such as MAIS, aimed at people receiving the Guaranteed Income of Citizenship, or SIOAS, for people with disabilities, have tightened the conditions and reduced the time of accompaniment. For this reason, and in order not to leave anyone behind, they ask the Government to prioritize investment in active employment policies aimed specifically at those groups furthest away from the labor market.

Faced with this reality, the 67 organizations that make up the Commission for Social and Labor Insertion of ECAS have launched a campaign under the slogan "Health protection is a basic right, decent work too", which claims the basic right of people to have access to decent work and the essential role of social organizations in promoting quality employment in Catalonia.

"The management of active employment policies is largely based on a system of one-off subsidies that makes entities dedicated to social and labor insertion more precarious."
- Esther Sancho, coordinator of the ECAS Insertion Commission.

The Catalan Social Action Entities defend that the construction of a fairer and more cohesive society depends on guaranteeing decent working conditions for all people, and that this must be a shared objective between public administration and social agents.

They therefore call for a more solid and structural collaboration that fully incorporates the social perspective in the design and implementation of employment policies, and that guarantees responses adapted to the complex situations of many people. In this regard, they consider it essential to reinforce spaces for dialogue, move towards the co-creation of public policies and provide more resources for socio-labor insertion programs.

Every year, the social entities of ECAS serve more than 100,000 people in Catalonia in training and insertion programs, a demonstration of the experience and flexibility necessary to provide an adequate response to the diversity of the population in the territory.

To arrange interviews with representatives of the Commission for Social and Labor Insertion of ECAS or to receive more information about the campaign, please contact:
Clara Drudis Rius - 613 912 572
📧 mitjans@lasembra.cat