The National Construction Confederation (CNC) has denounced that the accelerated aging of the construction sector and the shortage of vocational training students is putting the commitments of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR) at risk.
In fact, if for the Government of Spain, this and other reforms contained in the Recovery Plan require the creation of 188,300 direct jobs and up to 400,000 indirect jobs in the coming years; Construction employers go much further and estimate the need at more than 700,000 jobs.
This plan is financed with European funds, of which 7 out of every 10 euros of the 160,000 million euros that Spain will receive between direct transfers and credits, will be related to construction activity.
This was stated by its president, Pedro Fernández Alén, during the Cepyme conference ‘The challenge of vacancies in Spain’, within which the employers’ association has organized a sectoral panel to address the image of the sector.
The employers assure that aging and the lack of young people willing to train – to which we must add a dropout rate in FP of 48.8% – are two direct causes of the productive tensions in the sector due to the lack of manpower. of qualified work.
Thus, CNC regrets that only 9.2% of workers are 29 years old or younger, compared to the 25.2% that this segment of the population constituted in 2008, the year the financial crisis broke out.
Workers aged between 30 and 59 years were 71.2% in 2008 and last year 83.4%, at the same time that the workforce over 60 years old has also doubled, going from 3, 6% (2008) to 7.4% (2022).
Among the most affected commitments, the rehabilitation of 1.2 million homes by 2030 stands out, an initiative that has an allocation of 6,820 million euros. The CNC estimates that Spain should quintuple the rate of visas for reform (24,065 granted in 2022) to avoid losing aid.