Desperate Spanish OAP Offers Companies €5,000 If They Give Unemployed Son A Job

A desperate Spanish OAP is offering €5,000 to any company that gives his unemployed son a job.

The retired lawyer called Antonio took out a 30-word advert in the El Heraldo de Aragón newspaper on August 28 in a last-ditch attempt to secure work for his 39-year-old child.

“Pensioner offering €5,000 to company that employs his unemployed son,” it said.

The father described his son as “qualified, responsible and hard-working."

And he claimed he had a "good professional record” in IT and administrative positions.

Photos of the advert were posted online, and have now gone viral.

“My son is desperate,” he later told the newspaper in an interview.

“As a father I cannot watch him in pain and stand by and do nothing,” he said.

“Perhaps publishing this kind of advert seems improper but over time I have lost any shame,” he added.

The son, who himself has a young child, lives in the northern city of Huesca and has been out of work for several months.

The father said his son was “extremely angry” with him after he placed the advert without his knowledge.

But he claimed he’d received 20 calls from interested firms.

“What surprised me was that the majority did not even mention the money, which is obviously the most striking part of the advert,” he said.

Spain’s unemployment currently stands at 22.4 per cent.