After the doubts at the beginning of the year work He is having a sweet moment right now. Following the record set in March by creating 206,000 new jobs, April surpassed these records and left a positive balance. 238,436 workers active plus, total 20.6 million employees. Never before in April, not even during the ‘boom’ brick crisisso many jobs had not been created and at the same time there had not been so many SGK members.
Despite war in ukrainealready normalized in terms of supply chains and inflation refusing to refer, labor market It’s not just holding up, it’s growing, according to data updated this Thursday by the Ministries of Labor and Social Security. Cataloniafor its part, it was the autonomous community that created the third most jobs. Balearic Islands And AndalusiaContribute to more than double the employee Madrid.
Companies are hiring staff at unprecedented rates, but that hasn’t been a barrier to hiring for now. unemployment rates that continues to characterize Spain. The number of unemployed decreased by 73,890 in April. 2.7 million unemployed. It’s the lowest figure since 2008, but still the highest in the entire industry. European Union. At the gender level, unemployment among men (-10.2%) has been falling over the years, almost twice as intensely as among women (-6.1%).
And after scourges such as excessive temporary employment have been tamed by the latest developments, unemployment remains a pending problem, especially long-term. labor reform. Unlike the previous crisis, Sepe public assistance coverage rates are currently higher. According to official sources, 64% of the unemployed receive a benefit or subsidy, and the average time to be granted a new benefit is currently 1.6 days.
The hotel industry pulls the cart
Became the engine of employment this month of April hostel, among those who signal the summer holidays with supplements for the Easter holiday. As seasonally adjusted data show, the industry has left behind the specters of the Covid crisis and is looking forward to the summer campaign, as the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce pointed out in its current status report this week. Record for both national and international consumption.
And the Spanish labor market is expanding through all the sectors that have suffered the most from the sanitary restrictions. According to seasonally adjusted data, hotels, shows, gambling And Air transportation They are the activity branches that are mostly employed -as a percentage.