The CEOE Foundation, CEIM and the Community of Madrid will jointly promote actions to support displaced people from Ukraine

More than one thousand companies, half of them SMEs, are currently offering more than 4,000 job openings covering a wide variety of technical profiles. Of the total number of companies participating in this initiative, 20% are from the Community of Madrid.

From left to right, the President of the CEOE Foundation, Fátima Báñez; the Regional Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Internal Affairs of the Community of Madrid, Enrique López; and the President of CEIM, Miguel Garrido.

This morning, the CEOE Foundation, the Madrid Business Confederation (CEIM) and the Community of Madrid signed a protocol whereby they undertake to jointly promote entrepreneurial and employment actions to support the Ukrainian people and those displaced by the conflict that the country has been suffering since February 24 due to the Russian invasion.

The signing of the agreement, which took place at the Hospital Enfermera Isabel Zendal in Madrid, was led by the president of the CEOE Foundation, Fátima Báñez; the president of CEIM, Miguel Garrido; and the Regional Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Internal Affairs of the Community of Madrid, Enrique López. Also present at the event were the regional government’s Deputy Regional Ministers of the Presidency and Economy, Miguel Ángel García and Manuel Llamas, respectively.

In the words of Fátima Báñez, “this protocol is a new social commitment for the people, and working together for the people is working together for everyone’s progress. The Community of Madrid together with CEIM are at the forefront of public-private collaboration”. The president of the CEOE Foundation said that “we have launched Empresas por Ucrania (Companies for Ukraine) to provide information and facilitate fast integration through training and employment, because there is no greater social policy than employment.”

In turn, the president of CEIM, Miguel Garrido, reiterated that Madrid’s business community condemns Russia’s military attack on Ukraine and pointed out that ” faced with a situation like this one, everyone must react jointly, the administration and the civil society, and that is why companies are responding by offering employment and opportunities; we have the obligation to make this happen, although we need to have the necessary tools to be able to create this employment”.

More than a thousand companies, half of them SMEs, are currently offering more than 4,000 job vacancies covering a wide range of specialist profiles. Of all the companies participating in this initiative, 20% are from the Community of Madrid. The signing of this protocol will serve to establish a space for coordination and collaboration between the parties -the Community of Madrid, through the Regional Ministry of the Presidency, Justice and Internal Affairs, the CEOE Foundation and CEIM-, with a double purpose: on the one hand, to promote joint actions that encourage Madrid companies to continue adopting measures of humanitarian support and solidarity through donations, volunteer actions or any other kind of aid to the Ukrainians; and on the other hand, to promote, in coordination with the public employment services, the employability of displaced and refugee Ukrainian people, offering job vacancies in the Community of Madrid, in all sectors, as well as free training and skill acquisition that will enable their incorporation into the labour market.