One-liner: the Comunitat Valenciana's regional public employment service — free public services (job search, training, orientation, subsidies) covering the whole labor market, including a self-employment establishment grant and reduced-RETA route for unemployed people becoming founders.
What a founder gets
- Self-employment establishment aid — a one-off, collective-tiered grant for registered jobseekers who become autónomos; run in detail on LABORA Self-Employment Aid.
- Reduced RETA contribution (tarifa plana, ~€80/month) as a new self-employed person, stackable with the establishment grant and the national Capitalizacion del paro (unemployment lump-sum capitalization).
- Free orientation, training and job-search services ("Busque Ocupació", "Busque Formació", "Busque Orientació") — useful for a founder assembling an early team or needing to formalize their own transition off unemployment benefits.
- "Punt LABORA" — a physical/digital service point network and companion app for jobseekers and employers.
- Ongoing 2026 employment-subsidy windows: indefinite hiring of priority-group unemployed (29 Jan–15 Oct 2026); temporary hiring of people with severe disability (30 Jan–1 Sep 2026); qualified-youth hiring under Garantía Juvenil — relevant to founders looking to hire their first employees with a subsidy.
Who it's for
- Registered jobseekers (demandantes de empleo) in the Comunitat Valenciana transitioning into self-employment/founding a company — idea/seed stage, any sector.
- Employers (including young startups) hiring from priority groups (youth, disabled, long-term unemployed) who want to access hiring subsidies.
How to engage
- Portal: labora.gva.es — "Ciutadania → Busque Ajudes - Subvencions" for the self-employment aid line, or "Empreses → Busque Ajudes - Subvencions" for hiring subsidies.
- General phone: 012 / 963 86 60 00 (963 86 60 00 also for calls from outside the Comunitat Valenciana).
- Email: labora@gva.es. Also has a chatbot and electronic-office ("tràmits telemàtics") channel; sign-language interpreter service available.
- Apply for the self-employment grant via digital certificate — see LABORA Self-Employment Aid for the full application route.
Key facts
- Full name: LABORA — Servei Valencià d'Ocupació i Formació, under the Vicepresidència primera i Conselleria de Vivenda, Ocupació, Joventut i Igualtat of the Generalitat Valenciana.
- Mission (per site, "Qui som → Missió"): to offer free public services that facilitate people's access to, maintenance of, and improvement in employment on equal terms, and to meet employers' staffing needs across the Comunitat Valenciana.
- Publishes organizational transparency material: organigrames (org charts), memòries (annual reports), "Labora en xifres" (statistics), and normativa — useful for verifying current leadership/structure if needed (not yet pulled into this page — status/verify if a named director is required).
- Related regional programs referenced elsewhere in the ecosystem: Avalem (youth/employment initiative) and the Campus Virtual Labora Formació (training platform), both linked from the LABORA site footer.
Relations
- Runs: LABORA Self-Employment Aid
- See also: Capitalizacion del paro
- See also: Idea Stage (phase)
- See also: SEPE
- See also: Valencia Activa