Very short-term contracts are down 18% this summer

According to the details of the State Public Employment Agency’s (SEPE) contract statistics, 301,038 contracts were signed in July, compared to 396,009 in the same month last year, before the job reform took effect, and this contract did not last a week. A drop of 24%.

As for June, they are sealed this year 358,397 contracts For less than 7 days, a decrease of 12.3% compared to the same month in 2021 when 408,990 was signed.

This reduction in shorter-term contracts is a reflection of some of the measures introduced in the labor reform that came into force in January, which limited the use and forms of temporary contracts on the one hand, and introduced the implementation of temporary contracts on the other. Penalty in the form of an additional contribution to Social Security for short-term contracts.

“Labour market reform has improved the quality of employment: temporary employment continues to decline drastically, even in a month like July, where employment has historically increased. temporary hire was very high”, highlighted by the Ministry of Inclusion and Social Security in the July employment data presentation.

Thus, in the face of decline temporary hire Both June and July recorded uncertain contract records with 1.5 million contracts of this type – especially from very short-term contracts.

In detail, 783,595 employment contracts of uncertain nature were signed in July.multiplying the average number of permanent contracts this month by five” and 685,992 fixed contracts were registered in July.

These figures mean that almost half of the contracts signed in these months have been signed. uncertain compared to the 10% they represented before labor reform came into effect.

Indefinite contracts in accommodation

These figures include discontinuous landlines from which industries such as: hostel anyone farming to face the campaigns and season peaks that become evident especially in the summer months.

In total, 534,269 contracts were signed this way in Spain in these two months. discontinuous constant: 241,590 in July and 292,679 in June.

Analysis by industryIn the uncertain ones, this discontinuous permanent modality and the hotel sector figures, where more than half of the contracts signed in July and June are of stable quality, come to the fore.

In July, 307,015 contracts The 160,581 sealed in the industry were uncertain, meaning the figures for the same month last year were multiplied by nine, barely representing 8% of the total for the industry.

Out of 337,290 contracts signed in the accommodation sector in July 2021, only 19,349 were initially unclear and 7,699 were converted by other methods, while the rest were temporary.

The June figures for this activity repeat the same pattern: more than half of the 350,393 contracts signed, 184,916, were permanent or converted from another to this modality.

“In the summer, high participation of uncertain modalities was maintained as a result of labor reform”, it was emphasized. CCOO.

“The indefinite contract has already been established as a reference method for recruitment against temporary contracts,” he said. UGT.