HE tourism heading into a historic summer amid a surge in passenger demand and increasing prices. The rapid growth experienced in almost all of the sector and in almost all destinations directly affects employment and breaks records in all branches of the tourism sector.
This creation work accelerating and reaching all-time highs before the peak summer season begins. According to the records of the SGK and the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism, the sector clearly exceeds the 2.7 million members of the SGK for three consecutive months, and the employment created is growing above the economy.
The big groups of Spanish tourism are pumping their chests and boasting not only strong job creation but also the quality of jobs created, steady and widespread wage increases. excellent tourlobby that brings together the thirty largest companies in the industry (among them, Meliá, NH, Iberia, Globalia, Riu or Amadeus), emphasizes that temporary employment has fallen to historic lows and that permanent contracts have become so widespread that they intensify two-thirds of the total, excluding permanent discontinuous ones.
More jobs, better jobs
Companies from different branches of tourism activity totaled 2.74 million Social Security branches in June, employing approximately 127,000 above the levels of both years, up 5% compared to the same month last year and also 2019. So tourism accounts for almost a fifth of all creation in the Spanish economy as a whole.
Exceltur, in its latest quarterly report, said, “The determinants for the growth of tourism activity and the business commitment to improve employment support not only more job creation, but also better employment with greater contract stability.” And the industry’s provisional rate fell to just 7.9% of all contracts in June, compared to 38.5%, which it had risen before the pandemic in 2019.
Perpetual contracts exceed 67% of the total number of affiliates in June (40% full-time permanent and 27% part-time), compared to 49% they added in the last year before Covid. During this period, the labor market has overpaid 650,000 permanent contracts and underpaid 518,000 temporary contracts, underscoring the lobbying of the big groups in the industry.
Three times as many uncertain as discontinuous
In addition, business is emphasizing that, amid the political debate in the election campaign for the statistical accounting of such contracts, the explosion in perpetual contracts far exceeds that of impermanent perpetual contracts. The weight of perpetual contracts almost triples the weight of non-permanent contracts, accounting for 24.3% of the total.
This discontinuous constant Employees who work only during the activity months and receive unemployment benefits during the low season each year are a traditional figure in the tourism industry because of the seasonality of the job.
It is considered to be realized through the implementation of greater stability in employment from the tourism sector itself. labor reform It has resulted in a rapid increase in indefinite and indefinite permanent contracts, which were approved by the current government that took effect in March 2022, reducing the situations where companies could sign temporary contracts.
The companies also highlight the salary increases undertaken by the industry mainly due to the need to revise collective agreements due to inflation and improve conditions due to difficulties in attracting staff in some destinations. According to Caixabank Research, wages in the industry rose 8.8% from 2019 levels through May, compared to an average of 8.2% for all economic sectors.