Public programmes offering non-state-regulated training for unemployed people aged over 25 who are registered as jobseekers with the Catalan Occupation Service. The programmes aim to provide the unemployed with training and work, and to aid their integration or reintegration into the job market (in other words, they are open to people looking for their first job or who have had a job previously and want to begin working again).
A plastic card that bears an identification number and the name and signature of its holder . Such cards are issued by multinational institutions (Visa, Diners Club, Carte Blanche, etc,.), which authorise the holder to sign documents to pay for goods and services (travel tickets, hotels, etc.). Each month, the amounts owed are debited to a bank or savings bank account belonging to the card holder. Credit cards can also be used for making cash withdrawals. The interest rate applicable to credit card services is rather high.
A plastic card (like a credit card) that banks give their customers to use in Caixers automàtics / Cash machines. Debit cards can also be used for paying for purchases or services, in which case the corresponding amount is automatically subtracted from the balance of the customer's account or passbook.
A service provided by financial institutions, consisting of sending money from one account to another, within the same country or abroad.
Work that you perform for an employer in exchange for a wage, normally in accordance with an agreement set out in an Contracte laboral / Employment contract.
Work that you perform on your own behalf, rather than being the employee of a company . You yourself provide the necessary capital and labour (when you start up your own business, for example).
A Social Security body encompassing all the system's economic resources and financial administrative functions. Its main duties include registering companies and individual workers, recording the start and end dates of workers' periods of employment and collecting contributions.