From the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Diaz Ayuso, To the Minister of Inclusion, Jose Luis Escrivathrough Yolanda Díaz, second vice president, Business ‘council member’ Roger Torrent or president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno. The consensus among the political class that April is a historic month for employment is practically cross.
Beyond the political views of each, the data updated by the Government this Thursday reflect unprecedented records with record job creation. Spain is climbing 20.6 million workers active, never before had so many people been employed at the same time. The revival of tourism and its entry into the warmer months support the growth, which is also supported in less seasonal sectors.
However, this unemployment The highest or inter alia all permanent employment created in the European Union is not full-time. Here are five keys to a “historic” April for employment.
Employment: Spring Records
2022 did not end well. The slowdown in job creation is more than expected and alarms have been triggered. Danger of eroding inflation and rising interest rates affecting the resilient labor market left its place to an uncertain 2023. However, despite the fact that January didn’t end convincingly either, employment is currently being set up in a sweet moment. After a record 206,000 new jobs created in March, April surpassed these records and left a positive balance with 238,436 active workers. 20.6 million employees. Never before have there been so many jobs created or so many Social Security members created at the same time in an April, even during the “boom” before the brick crisis.
In this month of April, while the locomotive of employment was the hotel sector, it was among the supplements for the holidays. Easter and those who point Summer. The industry has left behind the specters of the Covid crisis, along with other industries that were particularly affected by the sanitary restrictions during its time. shows, gambling anyone Air transportation. However, the Government likes to point out that one in four jobs created after the pandemic are in high-productivity industries. computing anyone telecommunication And scientific activities And techniques.
Unemployment: The problem still pending
Unemployment is the pending problem of the Spanish labor market. As the ‘Mem’ says, “It doesn’t matter when you read this”. Companies are hiring staff at unprecedented rates, albeit at a slower pace to reduce the high unemployment rates that continue to characterize Spain. The number of unemployed decreased in April 73,890 peopletotal 2.7 million unemployed. This is the lowest figure since 2008, but still the highest in the entire European Union. at the level genderUnemployment among men (-10.2%) has been falling over the years, almost twice as intensely as among women (-6.1%).
In terms of employment, neither Spain nor Catalonia have ever had this much employment, and in terms of unemployment, they are still on the screen before the 2008 crisis. long term unemployed. That is, job seekers for more than a year have not been successful. According to the EPA, another indicator, four out of 10 unemployed are in this situation.
One-year full strength of labor reform
This labor reform It reveals its effects gradually. The government, employers and unions agreed in December 2021, effective January 2022, but the compliance period for companies with new contract formulas did not expire until April. One year after this full validity, the impact on the labor market is clear. While Spain had 11 million permanent workers before the reform, 13.8 million. And about half of the new contracts signed now are permanent compared to the pre-norm 10%.
are these all fixed contracts already full time? No, some of what was temporary is now discontinuous constant, working a few months a year and others are suspended. It doesn’t work, but it doesn’t show up in unemployment statistics either. However, despite the strong spike in this figure or the increase in income, partial contractThe vast majority of regulars are full-time regulars. According to the latest statistics, three out of four are permanent, full-time.
Warning among the self-employed group
Work autonomous Despite coming out of the ‘red numbers’ in terms of job creation rate this April, the lively hours are not passing. There have been fewer self-employed people in Spain since January than in the same month last year, indicating a contraction dynamic and not experienced since the Great Recession. But April broke that trend – later it’ll be possible to see if it’s a brace or a change in cycle – and the inter-year development is once again positive. According to April data 3.3 million members RET was discharged.
The group is adapting to the price crisis, as well as the new quota system that now taxes the self-employed based on their net income. It remains to be seen how the group reacts in the coming months and whether some workers who do not meet the minimum quota choose to unsubscribe if the quota is given badly.
Catalonia created 2.5 times more jobs than Madrid in April
Both the ‘customer’ of the Business of the Generalitat, Roger TorrentThey came to congratulate themselves on the April data, as did Isabel Díaz Ayuso, head of CAM. Objective figures say that Catalonia, which is between Spain’s two economic engines, will overtake Madrid cyclically. If the first contributed 38,626 new jobs, Madrid limited itself to 15,280 new active workers, 2.5 times less.
“It helps us compare models,” said Roger Torrent, “council member” of Empresa i Treball. He evaluated it between Catalan, which is based on “putting the workers at the center of our decisions”, and “neoliberal, where the bar is open and everyone is on their own” in Madrid.
However, by broadening the focus and making a year-over-year comparison, the state capital gained 142,177 new jobs last year compared to 113,627 in Catalonia.”[El de Madrid] It can produce certain numbers, but it doesn’t have the long-term consequences that the Catalan model has,” explained Torrent.Madrid by desire“, Ayuso tweeted.