nails 170,000 people fall every year depression Because he doesn’t have a job Or because he has one but you charge very little. Or because you have provisional agreement and not knowing if they will renew it tomorrow. Or not being able to work the hour you want and being left with a meager salary at the end of the month. In short, to be in a business situation dangerous. This is determined by the report presented this Friday by the Department of Labor, which was first tasked to analyze and evaluate the effects of working conditions on mental health.
“a worrying situation“, the UPF researcher who was accepted as the coordinator of the study Joan Benach. And from a commission of experts created by second vice president Yolanda Díaz, they measured that the main source of one in three depressions in Spain is in the office, supermarket, factory or workplace. “It’s so big inequality This requires an agreement in our country,” Díaz agreed, giving up his desire to limit part-time shifts.
Just two years after a PP lawmaker yelled “go to the doctor” when Más País leader Íñigo Errejón was talking about mental health, the Ministry of Labor is presenting its diagnosis. “It was not done on purpose,” Errejón said during the presentation. According to the document, almost half of those employed They experience a kind of job insecurity in Spain. They either have a highly qualified job or a temporary job, or they have a part-time job and want to have a full-time job, or work in ‘B’; among others.
Something that concerns the 8.1 million people working in Spain, with a greater majority of women, youth, non-normative sexual identities and people with some form of disability. If you add people in unemploymentthis number of insecure increases to 11 million.
A high degree of precariousness explains, among other things, why Spain is the most traveled country. anxiolytics And hypnotic consumes the world per capita. According to the report, about 11% of adults say they have used sedatives, relaxants or sleeping pills in the past two weeks. Labor experts determine that the higher the insecurity, the more likely they are to become depressed or develop some type of mental health disorder. “We need to open up the debate about the new ways companies and jobs are organized,” said Benach.