Análisis: defensa de la mano de obra local en la política pública de empleo de Barrancabermeja, una visión para el desarrollo local.

Abstract

The creation of employment opportunities and the defense of local labor has been a priority for Barrancabermeja's population. Since 1985 they are demanding to local government that human talent of the territory be preferred in work dynamics in order to improve the living conditions of its citizens. In 2008, current government agreed to implement the Public Employment Policy to formulate actions in order to provide opportunities for dignified and decent people jobs, to defend the local workforce, to bet on training human talent in the region and local development. Nevertheless, more than six years after the implementation of this Public Policy (PP), villagers believe that local goverment doesn't protect local workforce because they cannot see any result and unemployment numbers are rising 19.9% according to the Household Survey Centro de Estudios Regionales del Magdalena Medio (CER) in 2013. This research seeks to deepen, through a qualitative analysis, the contribution of public employment policy Barrancabermeja in the defense of the local workforce as a pillar for municipal development from the perceptions of members of the Committee that makes assessment and monitoring of the implementation and enforcement of the PP employment. The results obtained during the development and analysis of this project show the difficulties encountered in implementing public policies, and the need for the municipality of generating policies attending the territory, immersed in a new local development model to defend workforce and, further, to establish new dynamics within other productive and economic sectors that allow a responsible use of natural resources and social welfare of communities.