The need to maintain employment levels in order to avoid the social and economic consequences of massive unemployment was extrapolated in the creation of a Programme for employment support.

This Programme was created within the scope of the National Employment Emergency (in force since 2002) to support and promote genuine employment, in spite of the economic slowdown and the crisis experiences by certain geographic areas.

The purpose is to support companies by providing non-remunerative financial assistance for a 12-month period to workers in vulnerable sectors.

In order to gain access to this benefit, companies need to prove their crisis situation, presenting the actions that they plan to develop and committing themselves not to dismiss employees. They need to prove the fulfilment of tax and labour rules, and their financial and economic flow by submitting their balance sheets and, among other things, the compliance to the union association that represents their workers.

This measure helps companies to recover and grow in times of difficulties.