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What it is

Reform of active employment policies and public employment services

BOE step 7 of 7 · Passed

It is a royal decree-law. It was introduced on 18 February 2011. Introduced by: Gobierno.

Official title: Royal Decree-Law 3/2011, of February 18, on urgent measures to improve employability and reform active employment policies.

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Source: Congreso de los Diputados, file 130/000039· updated 11 Nov

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  1. Creates the Spanish Employment Strategy (Estrategia Española de Empleo), which sets employment policy goals for the whole country and for each Autonomous Community, and the Annual Employment Policy Plan (Plan Anual de Política de Empleo), which specifies those goals each year.
  2. Strengthens the National Employment System and its coordination bodies. The State Public Employment Service manages state-wide actions and unemployment benefits, while each Autonomous Community may set up its own employment policy plans.
  3. Establishes a common catalog of services for citizens offered by Public Employment Services, with specific services for unemployed people, employed people and companies.
  4. Creates the individual and personalized employment pathway, formalized through a Personal Employment Agreement whose unjustified breach is sanctioned. It also sets priority groups such as young people, people over 45, people with disabilities and the long-term unemployed.
  5. Redefines active employment policies and their principles, and sets ten areas of action, such as career guidance, training, hiring incentives or self-employment. The Autonomous Communities design and carry out these actions in their territory.
  6. Sanctions breach of the Personal Employment Agreement and creates, within the State Public Employment Service, an Employment Policy Fund to finance active employment policies, overseen by a Management Committee.

Who it affects

  • Unemployed people: Must register and, where applicable, follow a personalized employment pathway under a Personal Employment Agreement, whose breach is sanctioned.
  • Employed people: Receive catalog services to keep or improve their job and have their training officially recognized.
  • Companies: Can use public employment services to fill job openings, get advice and report hires electronically.
  • Autonomous Communities: Design and carry out active employment policies in their territory and take part in the Spanish Employment Strategy.
  • Priority groups (young people, people over 45, people with disabilities, long-term unemployed): Have specific employment promotion programs and pathways adapted to their needs.

Words worth knowing

Políticas activas de empleo (active employment policies)
Set of guidance, employment and training actions and measures to help people find or keep a job.
Intermediación laboral (labor intermediation)
Service that connects people looking for work with companies offering jobs.
Acuerdo Personal de Empleo (Personal Employment Agreement)
Commitment signed between the unemployed person and the public employment service to take part in job search or training actions.
Real decreto-ley (royal decree-law)
Rule with the force of law that the Government can pass on an urgent basis, in this case because of the unemployment situation.

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Where it stands

How far did it get?

It took 7 of 7 steps. It reached BOE, and today it is passed.

  1. Introduced18 February 2011Someone registers the text in the Congreso.
  2. Admitted22 February 2011The Bureau of the Congreso accepts it and, for a members’ bill, the plenary decides whether to consider it.
  3. Amendmentsno dateGroups propose changes.
  4. Committeeno dateA committee goes through the text in detail.
  5. Plenary22 February 2011All 350 deputies vote.
  6. Senateno dateThe Senate can pass it, amend it or veto it.
  7. BOEno dateIt is published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) and comes into force.
See the 4 official steps on a timeline
Feb 201111. 18 February 2011: Presentación22. 22 February 2011: Calificación33. 22 February 2011: Pleno Convalidación desde 22/02/2011 hasta 10/03/201144. 10 March 2011: Concluido - (Convalidado y tramitado como Proyecto de Ley) desde 10/03/2011 hasta 16/03/2011

Was there a plenary vote?

We have no plenary vote linked to this law in the Congreso’s data.

What happens next

What happens now?

It is law, or will be once published in the BOE. It comes into force on the date its own text sets.

Published in the BOE: Royal Decree-Law 3/2011, of February 18, on urgent measures to improve employability and reform active employment policies.

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Where does all this come from?

  • The data comes from the open files of the Congreso, the Senate and the BOE, unaltered.
  • Each deputy’s province is the one of their seat on the day of the vote.
  • We only say “passed” or “rejected” when the majority needed is certain; otherwise we say which side had more votes.

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