Spanish pensioner offers cash to find job
for 'desperate' son
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[September 08, 2015]
MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish
pensioner has placed a newspaper advertisement offering 5,000 euros
($5,600) to any employer who would hire his 39-year-old son, a
"desperate" unemployed father of one.
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"Pensioner offers 5,000 euros to company who hires his unemployed
son, qualified, responsible and hard-working with good references,
pay negotiable according to contract, absolute discretion," the
advertisement in El Heraldo de Aragon newspaper said.
Concerns about Spanish unemployment, the second-highest in Europe at
22.4 percent, are at the center of the campaign for a general
election to be held in December.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, ahead in polls but expected to fall
short of a majority, is seeking to overcome scepticism that an
economic recovery is truly filtering down.
The pensioner, a retired lawyer, told the newspaper he could not
watch his son suffer without doing anything.
![](http://archives.lincolndailynews.com/2015/Sep/08/images/ads/current/ccaonline_sda050208.png) "The advert might look undignified, but I lost my sense of shame a
long time ago," said the pensioner, who did not want to give his
name. His son has been unemployed for several months.
Many families are like his - they have ridden out a six-year
economic crisis thanks to the pensions of older members.
Spanish pensions rose 8.3 percent between 2008 and 2012, government
statistics show. By contrast, incomes of people aged 30 to 44 --the
biggest group in the working-age population-- fell 2.8 percent as
millions lost their jobs or took wage cuts.
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"In the newspaper classified section, Mariano Rajoy's recovery,"
Pablo Echenique, a leading member of the anti-austerity party
Podemos, said in a message on Twitter accompanying a photo of the
ad.
The pensioner, who could not immediately be reached for comment,
told the newspaper that he had got around 20 calls, and most had not
mentioned the money he offered.
($1 = 0.8982 euros)
(Reporting By Elisabeth O'Leary; Editing by Larry King)
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