There are no specific public support measures ( or active labour market policies) for redundant employees, although sometimes specific advice/guidance measures are developed in order to address particular cases of restructuring. These measures were, for instance, included in the tripartite agreement for the coal industry (2013-2018). 

Active Labour Market Policies (ALMP) addressing the unemployed are managed by the regional government through the Regional Public Employment Services. In 2011, the socialist government enacted a new reform aiming to increase coordination between the national and regional Public Employment Services (Royal Decree law 3/2011). The reform approved the so-called Annual Plan of the Employment Policies (article 5). This strategy sets up the annual goals that regional public employment services must try to achieve.

In 2015, the popular party government regulated a catalogue with common ALMP services to be offered in the whole Spanish territory (Royal Decree 7/2015, art. 9,10,11 and 12). It establishes that all unemployed are entitled to receive the following ALMP services:

• An individualised diagnosis on the profile and the specific needs and expectations of the unemployed;
• information and management of job offers;
• design, elaboration and implementation of an individual and personalised employment plan that could include advice and orientation on employment and self-employment, and advice and orientation on measures aiming to improve professional qualifications and employability;
• an offer of vocational training measures that can be officially recognised with a so-called ‘professional certificate’;
• evaluation, recognition and accreditation of professional competencies gained though labour experience.