Hiring incentives in tourism in Sardinia: the measures provided by the new SO.LA.RE. call

The SO.LA.RE. Sardegna program is back in 2025 with important news and concrete economic support for tourism businesses that hire young people under 35 and long-term unemployed women. The measure, promoted by the Councilor for Labor Desirè Manca, aims to encourage stable and inclusive employment in the strategic tourism sector, with contributions of up to 1.000 euros per month for each new hire. 22 million euros allocated between regional resources and European ESF+ funds.

Up to a thousand euros per month in subsidies to tourism sector businesses that hire especially under 35s and women. This is the intervention called “SO.LA.RE. Sardinia – Work Support Sardinia Region” renewed by the Board on the proposal of theLabour Councillor Desirè Manca. 

"The measure had already been foreseen in 2024 with flattering results: 2.090 applications for the under 35 line and 1.948 for the over 35 line. The changes made by the Board on 30 April 2024 had allowed two double results to be obtained – explains the Labour Councillor Desirè Manca – broaden the group of potential beneficiaries by indicating individual aid that could not exceed 300 thousand euros for large businesses and 150 thousand euros for micro businesses".

"For us – continues the councilor – It is essential to support businesses and workers in the tourism sector by providing aid in the form of subsidies based on the gross monthly wages (specifically on the fixed and invariable components of the wage) of newly hired young people, under the age of 35, and long-term unemployed, over the age of 35, especially women.".

Councillor Desirè Manca proposed that the measure be “implemented continuously but with further adjustments: incentives are targeted and designed to create jobs that would not have been there without them or, that the same jobs would have had a shorter duration in terms of contractual continuity in the absence of the aid. Therefore, support for entrepreneurship, with a particular focus on young people, women, including support to address some of the main challenges for SMEs, can be a useful complement".

The Board has approved the administrative procedures for the publication of the Notice “SO.LA.RE. – Year 2025” ofallocating as much as 22 million euros, of which 16 million and 400 thousand euros from resources already allocated in the budget of the Sardinian Agency for Active Labour Policies (ASPAL) and, for 5 million and 600 thousand euros from the co-financing of the Sardinia Regional Programme FSE + 2021-2027 (European Social Fund).