Interim contracts set minimums in 2023With 8.82 million employment contracts in this category, 21% less than in 2022, but those lasting less than 7 days remained above 3 million, accounting for one of all temporary contracts of the year.
According to the details of the contract statistics published by the State Public Employment Agency (SEPE), a total of 15.4 million employment contracts were signed in the whole of 2023. This figure is 15.65 percent less than in 2022.
The decrease in the total number of contracts signed is framed in the context of dynamism in employment (the addition of 539,740 Social Security workers with employment records in 2023) and the increasing weight of precarious employment after labor reform.
Thus, according to contract type, 6.6 million indefinite contracts were signed in 2023; this figure is 6% less than the previous year, but this accounts for almost 43% of those signed; This is 5 points more than 2022.
When the figures are compared with statistics before labor reform, indefinite agreements Those sealed in 2023 tripled those in 2019, while representing barely a tenth.
The Ministry of Labor emphasized that “indefinite recruitment has been consolidated in 2023” when presenting annual employment data.
Temporary contracts down 21%
Regarding temporary recruitment, last year closed with 8.8 million fixed-term contracts; This is 21% less than in 2022, when the work and service method can be applied for a few more months.
According to contract type, Among the temporary ones, the most used ones were agreements on production terms, with 6.5 million signed agreements. Compared to 2019, before the labor reform came into force, there was a 56% decrease in temporary hiring.
However, looking at the period, 3.1 million weekly contracts did not arrive in 2023 (a decrease of 12% compared to last year and 50% compared to 2019), but as the total number of temporary contracts decreased, it gained weight over the total. Thus, they accounted for 36% of all temporary contracts and 21% of all closed contracts, compared to 32% and 19% respectively in the previous year.
when it comes discontinuous constantIn this method, which gained importance after the labor reform, 2.3 million agreements were signed in 2023, maintaining the figures of the previous year.
Compared to before the labor reform, the number of temporary permanent employment contracts increased 10 times compared to 2019 (262,841).