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Mar 21

Foment Up is looking for Data & IoT Startups to connect with Gas Natural Fenosa

A program to build strategic partnerships between startups and corporates in Barcelona

Our main mission is to identify emerging companies that drive the innovation in a specific sector, for which we offer tailor-made programs that include the participation of mentors from leading companies in their sector. The first edition with Gas Natural Fenosa offers an adhoc learning program with workshops... read more →
Jul 14

Prices rise 0.3% in Catalonia in June, the second consecutive month with positive figures​​

In Spain, year-on-year CPI increases 0.1% due to electricity and food, leaving behind eleven months of fall

Annual variation of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) maintains the positive tendency that started in May. In Catalonia, prices rose 0.3% this June, two more decimals than last month. In Spain, there was an increase of 0.1%, meaning the first time with positive figures for over eleven months. Those... read more →
Jul 06

The negotiation of Collective Agreements gains speed during the first semester of 2015

Until 30 May 2015, 111 Collective Agreements were signed, linking 279,171 workers and 39,680 companies

In Catalonia, from the beginning of the year, the number of labour force adjustment plans has significantly reduced: -47.47% on expiry plans, -57.76 on suspension of contracts and -55.23% on plans on reduction of the working hours The average wage variation in all Agreements has been of 0.86%.... read more →
Jun 24

Foment del Treball receives Alares Award for excellence in labour risk prevention for disabled people

The Office for Labour Risk Prevention (OPRL, in Spanish) of Foment draws up preventive tools to help enterprises adapt the workplace for disabled workers

Foment del Treball Nacional received the Alares Award 2015 for excellence in labour risk prevention for disabled people. The jury of the IV edition of the Alares Awards assessed the publications edited by the Office for Labour Risk Prevention (OPRL, in Spanish) to help enterprises adapt the work... read more →
Jun 19

Situation Report – June 2015

Economic recovery in Catalonia and Spain consolidates, the economy grows at a good pace and mid-term growth forecasts indicate a trend upwards.

Short-term data indicators are positive: the activity in the service sector accelerates; consumer trust shows signs of optimism again; production, billing and industry orders grow; activity in the construction sector starts rising; and the external sector keeps registering very positive figures regarding exports and tourism. In that sense, private... read more →
Jun 10
Jun 08

Gay de Montellà: “Catalonia, the best place to settle the most innovative companies of the South of Europe”​​

The minister for Employment and Social Security, Fátima Báñez, opens the General Assembly of the Catalan employers’ organization

Foment del Treball presented today at the General Assembly its annual accounts, the 2014 Report and, in general, the balance of a year that the president of the institution, Joaquim Gay de Montellà, considered as satisfactory “both for the results and for the self-satisfaction of a work done from... read more →
Dec 11

Foment awards His Majesty the King with the Gold Medal​​​​

The Monarch presided over the ceremony for the Medals of Honour and the Carles Ferrer Salat Awards of Foment

Foment del Treball awarded His Majesty the King with the Gold Medal of the institution, handed in by the president of Foment, Joaquim Gay de Montellà. Foment recognized the Monarch with the highest distinction as “an acknowledgment for his compromise with business, economic and human progress in this... read more →
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