El Gobierno destina 25,8 millones a las corporaciones locales para contratar 2.300 desempleados en Cantabria
The Government of Cantabria, through the Ministry of Industry, Employment, Innovation, and Commerce, has resolved this week the call for subsidies from the Cantabrian Employment Service Program (EMCAN) for the labor insertion of unemployed people, with an amount of 25.8 million euros, which will be allocated to a total of 199 local entities for the hiring of 2,300 unemployed individuals.
This year’s 2025 call will boost the hiring of unemployed individuals for the performance of works and services of general and social interest. Specifically, more than a hundred municipalities, 15 joint associations, and two associations will benefit from these aids, as indicated by the regional government in a press release.
The Minister of the sector, Eduardo Arasti, has explained that these aids will provide the necessary reinforcement of personnel to the beneficiary local entities for municipal services, and to the selected workers a work experience and support in their labor insertion.
As specified, the subsidies will be used to finance the salary costs and Social Security of the hired individuals, understanding as salary costs the economic benefits of the workers for the provision of their services, including the legally established termination indemnity.
All unemployed individuals registered as job seekers in the employment offices of the Government of Cantabria at the time of the survey and the day before hiring may apply for these contracts.
The employment offices will be responsible for sending to each beneficiary entity a list of, whenever possible, four candidate individuals per job position.
Subsequently, the corporations can choose between two procedures: either carry out the final selection of candidates themselves or delegate this function to the corresponding employment office. In any case, the final selection must be made among the individuals pre-selected by the employment office.
The contracts, which cannot be less than 3 months or more than 6, except for substitutions, must end no later than July 31, 2026.
Priority groups for covering these job offers will be, first, long-term unemployed individuals, aged 45 or older, registered as job seekers, unemployed for 420 days accumulatively in a period of 18 months, and not recipients of benefits or subsidies.
Following this group, will be long-term unemployed individuals under 45 years old, also registered as job seekers under the same terms as the previous group, and lastly, the rest of the job seekers, prioritizing those who have not participated in the last year in this program, in the work practice programs of the Cantabrian Employment Service, or in the Employment Workshops, Young Talent Schools or other mixed employment-training programs.
The resolution of the order, already communicated to the beneficiary entities, can be consulted on the EMCAN website ( in which the beneficiary local entities and the approved amounts for each of them are specified.
