The level of training and the skills acquired must enable participants to overcome barriers to access or progress in the labour market. In this sense, it is necessary to focus especially on keeping students from dropping out of school or on lifelong learning, both specialised and focused on general skills (such as mastery of languages or ICT skills).

The central role of talent in promoting an innovative production fabric that provides medium and high salary levels means that great emphasis is placed on promoting and retaining it. The attraction of talent is the complement that should help to meet unsatisfied needs with local talent and requires a significant effort to coordinate and simplify certain processes.

The improvement of working conditions, including wages, amidst continuous change in the labour market, calls for the action of spaces for social agreement. In particular, we must address the establishment of a reference salary scheme from these spaces that takes into account both the structure of the labour market and the new labour realities and various determining factors of the territories of the metropolis.

The assumption by the business fabric of the importance of good working conditions and relationships with stakeholders and the environment to achieve greater productivity means increasing its degree of commitment to the people who work in it and the territory in which they operate, opening the way to the adoption of socially responsible practices that must be duly recognised and encouraged.

The proper functioning of the production system calls for finding adequate solutions in attention and care, particularly for the most dependent people. Salary and gender biases in employment in these sectors must be reduced, while the commitment to the third sector must be strengthened as a relevant actor in providing services to people and as a cohesive factor and generator of social capital.

The most labour-intensive sectors and, therefore, with a high capacity to generate employment, demand specific attention in order to ensure working conditions that guarantee increases in productivity. Likewise, we must identify new employment-generating sectors and propose proposals for rooting and accelerating their development.