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The steady growth of the employment in the non-state branch contrast somehow, with the hope that is still wished in a great number of youngsters to work in entities of the State. These are preliminary results from a research on the changes in the labor policy and its impact on people between 17 and 35 years old, who were discussed by the deputies of the permanent commission of the Parliament that deals with the attention to the youth, the children and the equal rights for women.
Maria Josefa Luis Luis, researcher of the Youth Studies Center explained about the distinctive characteristics of the youth employment policy in Cuba and the characteristics currently assuming the country according to the updating economic model.
Until October 2013, about 130,000 youngsters were working as self-employees, a figure that represents the 30 percent of the total workers in this modality.
The specialist stressed the importance of the employment of workers even younger in this category, hired by self-employees, which represents a little more of the 47 percent. This demonstrates the importance to strengthen the legal protections for these citizens, to protect their rights.
The studies produced the following results in eight provinces of Cuba. The majority of the youngsters would like to work in the State sector, because they believe it is safer.
When they compared the relations between the studies carried out by these young self-employees, the 68 percent of the interviewed said their current job has nothing to do with their career. The 20 percent of them consider their educational training has helped in their job and just the 9 percent of them do what they studied.
In the interview, the young people referred to the main problems they have to face in this type of employment, due to the frequent modifications and legislations, the actions of the inspectors and the police and the lack of resources to deal with the business.
In relation to those young people who are currently dissociated either to education or a job in Cuba, highlights that just the 11 percent have been for more than five years in this situation, and half of this figure have been this way for about one or three years, what shows the impact of the present transformations, the expert said.
There is an alert on the matter that the 26 percent of the youngsters who are dissociated say they receive better wages in other ways, which show a risk in the increase of illegal activities.
Based on all the information, members of the commission debated on the importance to give more priority to youth employment, improve the demand planning of labor force in all schools to have a better employment of the young people, so they satisfy their needs with their job, and consolidate a strategy to urge the dissociated youth to legal working conditions.
