FAQs

From the GUREAK GROUP we offer companies different channels of collaboration based on the services required by the company and to meet market demands:

• Industrial subcontracting services with different technologies offering an integral, made-to-measure service for every client. The technologies are: plastic injection, electronic circuits, wiring (cutting, stripping and crimping), assemblies and packaging, and logistics.
• A whole range of activities and services to suit company requirements, such as: direct marketing, call centre, digitization, commercial and postal distribution, industrial cleaning, gardening, vending, receptions, laundries, hotel and catering, service stations, complete vehicle cleaning and anything else requested of us by clients.
• Advice and support for the incorporation of people with disability. These services are free of charge and require no commitment in regard to the necessary collaboration with a bearing on the company’s Social Corporate Responsibility (SCR).

• Law 13/1982, on the Social Integration of People with Disability, LISMI, establishes that public and private companies with a staff of more than 50 people must take on no fewer than 2% of people with disability.
• Law 50/98, of December 30th, amends the Law on the Social Integration of People with Disability and stipulates that, exceptionally, public and private companies may be partially or totally exempt from obeying the Law on the Social Integration of People with Disability (LISMI).

OTHER REFERENCE LEGISLATION

• Royal Legislative Decree 5/2000 of 4th August. Defines failure to observe obligation of the 2% rule established by the LISMI or to apply alternative measures as being a serious offence.
• Law 8/1988. Observing or failing to observe the Law on the Social Integration of People with Disability (LISMI) can limit or earn the company a higher or lower position in regard to contracts with the Administration or to requesting certain employment-promoting subsidies.

The Law on the Social Integration of People with Disability provides for exceptional alternative means. These are:

• Communication to the competent public employment services or placement agencies of a vacancy in the event of being unable to find a suitable candidate with disability or if said candidate decides not to accept the offer.
• In the event of companies proving the existence of productive, organisational, technical or economic reasons making it seriously difficult to incorporate people with disability to the company staff, the Public Employment Services will issue a Temporary Certificate of Exception.

• The establishment of a business or civil contract with a Special Employment Centre and an autonomous person with disability to provide raw materials, machinery, capital goods or any other kind of goods necessary for normal development of the company’s activity.
• Drawing up a business or civil contract with a Special Employment Centre or with an autonomous person with disability to provide external, accessory services to the regular company activity.

OTHER REFERENCE LEGISLATION

• Royal Legislative Decree 5/2000 of 4th August. Defines failure to observe obligation of the 2% rule established by the LISMI or to apply alternative measures as being a serious offence.
• Law 8/1988. Observing or failing to observe the Law on the Social Integration of People with Disability (LISMI) can limit or earn the company a higher or lower position in regard to contracts with the Administration or to requesting certain employment-promoting subsidies.
• Giving donations or monetary sponsorship to an Association or Foundation of public utility with the social objective of, among others, vocational training, job insertion or the creation of employment for people with disability.
• Constituting supported employment, having first of all signed the corresponding contract with a Special Employment Centre.

The steps to follow are:

• Companies interested in benefiting from any of the alternative measures must request a declaration of exception from the public employment services.
• The Directorate-General for Employment, which holds competence in the matter, or the placement agency, grants the certificate of exception.
• Implementation of any of the Alternative Measures must be carried out while the Certificate of Exception is valid, and every year at least the amount stipulated for the purpose in the implementing regulation (Royal Decree 364/2005) must be dedicated to this concept.

• Supported Employment is understood to be the contract between an ordinary company on the market or a collaborating company and a Special Employment Centre for the carrying out of work or services directly related to said collaborating company’s main activity, and for the purposes of which a group of workers from the Special Employment Centre temporarily move to the work centre of the collaborating company.
• Managing and organising the work corresponds to a Special Employment Centre with which the worker will fully maintain their special working relations while the supported employment situation remains in place.

The Special Employment Centre and the company will sign a written contract and must deliver it to the public employment service within a maximum of one month from the date it is signed including at least:

• Identification of the contracting parties.
• A precise description of the work or service for which the contract is drawn up and of the activity to be carried out by the people working in said supported employment.
• Details identifying the work centre where the work or service is to be carried out.
• Anticipated duration: minimum of 3 months and maximum of 3 years.
• Number of people to work at the place of supported employment.
• Price agreed to.
• Agreement between the parties to cooperate in applying regulations on the prevention of risks at work in regard to the working people.

As an alternative measure to fulfilment of the Law on the Social Integration of People with Disability, and provided that a certificate of exception is obtained, companies can make donations or provide monetary sponsorship to an Association or Foundation of public utility (ZEHARO FOUNDATION in the case of the GUREAK GROUP) with the social objective of, among others, vocational training, job insertion and the creation of employment for people with disability.

The financial sum assigned to said donation must be 1.5 times the annual Public Indicator of Multiple Effect Income (IPREM) for every person with disability not contracted within the 2% rate.

From the Gureak Group we offer a training, guidance and placement or mediation service, in addition to advice for more personalised, extended employment situations.

Thanks to our different departments and projects, we have extensive knowledge of the collectives who receive these contracts and have developed the appropriate tools for implementing the process.

Participants are selected by our technical job guidance staff in close collaboration with the social services of the different Town Councils in the places where the projects are to be located.

The idea is to work with people who show the desire to start their professional career in a specific activity and whose personal characteristics match the requirements of said activity but who, due to their circumstances, are unlikely to find a place in the job market and require a longer period of learning and adaptation in order to take up a job in the ordinary market.

At an interview, different aspects of the person will be assessed in relation to their employability, subsequently providing them with the different resources necessary to improve their chances of finding a job (training, job seeking techniques, work contract, etc.) and starting their personal journey towards insertion in the working world.

• Evaluation of their professional profile and diagnosis of the job or service required.
• Drawing up of a personal plan for job insertion.
• Job guidance
• Personal information
• Design of the plan to be followed
• Implementation and development of the proposed road map
• Training prior to accessing the job,
• Support in finding the appropriate job opportunities,
• And, once obtained, intensive support in the work situation and subsequent permanent monitoring with a view to keeping them in their jobs.

• From the Gureak Group we offer companies a series of services to encourage supported employment and facilitate the incorporation of people with disability. These services are co-funded 45% by the European Social Fund and 55% by the Basque Government Department of Justice, Employment and Social Security.
• Employment information and assessment on the legal and economic benefits of each contracting formula in regard to observance of the LISMI Law on the Social Integration of People with Disability.
• Analysis of positions and search for opportunities for people with disability in companies.
• Selection of candidates and presentation of those most suited to the job.
• Training and accompaniment in their positions of the selected person with disability
• Information and exchange sessions with company staff in regard to the concept of integrating workers with disability.
• Monitoring and maintenance of the insertion throughout the duration of the contract.
• Integral response to your obligation to contract workers with disability.
• Assessment of companies in regard to the potential measures required to improve their Social Corporate Responsibility.

Companies that take on people with disability will not only receive economic subsidies; doing so will also influence their Social Responsibility and make them an example of collaboration with the social integration of people with disability.

The GUREAK Group flexibly and effectively solves your staff requirements by means of its large selection of people available to work, helping you to recruit the people most suited to your vacancies, taking charge of adapting the person to the position in the early days and permanently monitoring them, advising you on everything you should know in regard to the economic advantages of hiring people at risk and who have difficulties finding a job. Also:

• We will make a candidate pre-selection free of charge for any staff requirements at your company.
• You will be provided with people who are appropriately selected and trained.
• They will meet their productivity targets from their first day of work.
• They will improve the public image and social recognition of your company.
• You will be eligible for financial subsidies for hiring people with difficulties of accessing the job market.
• It will affect your Social Corporate Responsibility (SCR) and will turn your company into an example of collaboration with the social integration of people with disability.

We have succeeded in making ourselves a part of the landscape of Gipuzkoa. Our objective has always been to reach all people with disability in Gipuzkoa, and today we have a network of work centres, care centres and companies dotted all over the province.

We have 15 industrial work centres in different parts of Gipuzkoa, in addition to work centres in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Iruñea-Pamplona, León, Guadalajara, Zaragoza... (For more details, see the Directory).

At the GUREAK GROUP our work revolves around the activities of the industrial and services sectors:

• GUREAK Industrial: Automotive, household appliances, electricity sector, renewable energies, railway sector, health and heating, etc.
• GUREAK Services: direct marketing, call centre, digitization, commercial and postal distribution, industrial cleaning, gardening, vending, receptions, laundries, hotel and catering, service stations, complete vehicle cleaning and any other requirement requested of us by our clients.

We provide integral solutions in industrial services including R&D design activities aimed at improving the service we provide to our clients.

Similarly, at the GUREAK Group we solve the services contracting needs of companies by organising personalised integral services.

Workers at the GUREAK GOUP have all kinds of disability, recognized by the Provincial Council Assessment Team as having a disability of more than 33%.

• Intellectual disability: the origin of GUREAK, which has become the preferred collective in company strategies.
• Physical disability.
• Sensory disability.
• People with mental illness: the most recent collective in the GUREAK Group, which is growing strongly by the year.

Around 85% of the workers at the GUREAK GROUP have some kind of recognised disability higher than 33%.

• 41% people with intellectual disability.
• 22% people with physical disability.
• 14% people with mental disability.
• 7% people with sensory disability.

The GUREAK GROUP is a corporation of non-profit companies who work to generate and manage stable working opportunities suitably adapted to people with disability, with priority on people with intellectual disability in Gipuzkoa.

The companies involved are qualified as being Special Employment Centres which must fulfil the obligation of hiring more than 70% of people with a certified disability of more than 33%.

There are also 2 Foundations which manage the more care-oriented services of the GUREAK Group, such as the Day Centre Network, the KutxaZeharo offices Network for basic mediation in obtaining employment, and other training and Integration to Ordinary Employment services.

Directly or in collaboration with other organisations, to promote business initiatives based on the endeavour to achieve high levels of social gain and management efficiency, and to use these initiatives to meet the needs of our internal and external clients, involving all departments and people in the continuous improvement of our processes. To apply business culture to all projects, thereby guaranteeing their economic sustainability in the future.

We believe in the abilities of people. We know how to take a wider approach, and that’s what makes us able to see the abilities of people with disability rather than their limitations.