Santa Clara, November 16 (RHC)-- Cuban experts believe that the current flow of labor from state companies to the non-state sector is a challenge to be addressed. The opinions were expressed during a national forum on human capital underway in the central Cuban city of Santa Clara.

The president of the event's organizing committee, Allan Aguilera, said that the lack of an attractive salary system leads the best prepared workers to migrate to non-state sectors. He added that the appropriate implementation of current government resolutions favoring efficiency and worker's salaries could face the challenge of losing workers to non-state activities like non-agricultural cooperatives and self-employment.

For many of the 120 participants, the forum helped understand some experiences with regards to employment amid the current update of Cuba's economy.

Since October 2010, when the non-state sector was launched in the country, up to May this year, more than half a million Cubans have joined these new initiatives, which continue to grow. A total of 31 percent of the country's labor is made up of young people, with 24 percent of them currently working in the private area, while 76 percent work for state entities.