beginning Pandemic and the declaration of the first state of alert recently went back three years. More than 1,000 days have passed since Head of Government Pedro Sánchez urgently appeared in the media to issue a decree. quarantine in the homes of the entire population. Since then, the Spanish labor market has more than recovered from the sinkhole that caused the suspension of most business activities. He got used to the first situation. war in Europe and suffering from the severity of the storm inflationist that you fed
How has employment changed since Covid started? This Tuesday, the Ministries of Labor and Social Security updated the data allowing for comparative analysis between March 2020 and March 2023. labor reform revolutionized recruitment statistics. mechanisms such as you they have gone from providing coverage to millions of workers to now being a resource. and collective self-employment Among other things, it had to adapt to a new contribution system.
Employment: 1.3 million more jobs
The announcement of the initial state of alert forced pubs, restaurants, non-essential shops and many other public establishments to close. This means that hundreds of thousands of workers, the majority of whom at that time, provisional agreement, laid off or not renewed. Between March and April, Social Security lost nearly 800,000 participants. Despite the dismissal and temporary increase in qualifications, youmany companies opted for traditional welding and laid off employees to lower the wage bill.
After the financial and real estate bubble burst, the same jobs were lost in two months as in the first year of the economic crisis in 2008. From that moment on, the labor market began to recover, just like a patient suffering from an illness, losing weight and spending several months combining diet and rehabilitation. Today that patient looks even more fertile than before the illness. SSI won 1.3 million employees Since March 2020 and has reached a historical contributor record.
Unemployment: Almost 700,000 fewer people
Unemployment, purely statistically, decreased by: 686,052 people Maximum total between March 2020 and March 2023 2.91 million people unemployed. This is the lowest unemployment level in Spain since 2008, when the financial and real estate bubbles burst. Those registered at Sepe offices skyrocketed in the first two months of the pandemic, and then the road to curbing that inflammation was long and slow.
And so far Spain has been an expert at creating jobs very quickly in good times, but not so intensely at reducing unemployment – we’ll see what the new labor reform will be when the next jobs crisis comes. That is, there are people who jump out of the labor market (or jump into the sea) when they are badly treated. It is very difficult to re-engage. And although Spain is currently on employment records, there are still almost a million more unemployed than in 2007.
More stability through job reform
A few days before Christmas 2021 – for the second time since the start of covid – the Government, employers and unions took a new decision. labor reform. This has had its effects over the past year, with the main objective of reducing the extremely high level of temporary employment that has existed for decades, the largest in Europe. And it left statistically unprecedented records. The month of the epidemic, Nine out of 10 contracts signatures were temporary. After three years, the ratio between temporary and permanent is almost 50-50.
While some of this possibility is not as desirable for the worker as a full-time, indefinite contract, it has been translated into more stable formulas. And among the new fixed contracts signed, the rate repeats every month: 45% full-time continuous, 30% discontinuous constant and 25% part time.
ERTE: From 3.4 million to 15,000 affected
The main shield provided by the Government to stop the successive expulsions due to restrictions, you. Some abbreviations hitherto unknown to the majority – the temporary employment regulation file – and have become part of the daily lexicon of the majority of citizens. Until then, it was a resource used almost exclusively by industrial companies in the face of semi-planned production cuts. And they came for protection at the height of the epidemic 3.4 million workers all over Spain.
Deferrals let companies stop payment fees and assume only a small part quotes, at the cost of an unprecedented injection of public money. The state calculates that it has invested more than 30,000 million euros between postponing and helping the self-employed. Initially, Sepe was harshly criticized by those affected for delays and issues with payments.
When restrictions are over and nearly the entire economy is back on track, today only total 15,379 workers, focused mainly on vehicle manufacturing companies (semiconductor crisis) and hotel companies that have not fully reopened since covid.
Self-employed: Almost 100,000 more self-employed
Work autonomous It strongly resisted the impact of the epidemic and lost almost no troops, unlike certain sectors within the general regime. Allowed aid to shut down activity – the self-employed strike – contributed to this, and according to data for this March, there are about 100,000 more self-employed workers now than three years ago. CHALLENGE. Up to 3.3 million participants in total.
The main challenge facing the group now is to adapt to the new quota system in the midst of an inflationary storm. Since this year, self-employed people have started to contribute according to their net income, and some of the group, They prefer to unsubscribe because they cannot meet the minimum quota. This 2023 start hasn’t been good and the self-employment has witnessed negative growth year over year.