The "Empresas de Inserción" or "Insertion companies" are an enterprise inside the world of Spanish Social Economy. EIs are a special type of social enterprise that focus on employment be for the most disadvantaged and excluded.
The Spanish law for "Empresas de Inserció" or "EI" defines them as follows: "Will be considered as integration enterprise or cooperative corporation that legally constituted, duly qualified by relevant regional organizations in this field, perform any economic activity of producing goods and services, designed to make arrangements for social integration and social and labor training of people experiencing social exclusion as a transition to regular employment.
"For these purposes must provide workers from extreme and difficult situations, as part of their pathways to integration, custom processes and assisted in paid work, training in the workplace, labor and social habituation. Also, these companies should have intervention or support services to facilitate their labor insertion subsequent incorporation into the regular labor market".
From 2000 and 2002, the 12 countries surveyed had a total of 14,200 EI in 40 different business structures. The vast majority of EI in Spain are in Basque Country and in Catalonia.