Employment in Spain exceeded a new roof in July, with 21,865,503 people working on average affiliated with Social Security. The new maximum is slightly higher than that reached in June, below the barrier of 21.9 million workers, after adding 4,400 more affiliated people. On the side of unemployment, there is a reduced decrease, in 1,300 people, the second worst data since 2008, until leaving a total of 2,404,606 unemployed people pointed to public employment offices.
Julio has become a month of poor job creation in recent years, even with affiliation falls, after the bulky contracts that occur in May and June for the summer and the thrust of tourism during the summer time, and due to the important declines of workers in the education sector (-127.500) once the school year is completed. In 2024, for example, employment fell into about 9,800 people. In 2022, in 7,400. This year, it has increased by 4,400 average affiliates, a reduced increase if it is attended to the increases in the series at a time when Spain is in historical workers of workers.
If you look back for a year, Spain has created almost half a million jobs, with 482,397 people working affiliated with Social Security. The rhythm of increase is in 2.3%, improving in a tenth the one in recent months.
According to de -stationalized data, which isolate the evolution of the use of calendars and seasonality, employment increased in July in 31,000 people, until reaching 21,642,413 occupied, “the highest level of the series,” highlights the Ministry of Social Security.
From work and social security also highlight the employment record together with the “metamorphosis of the Spanish labor market”, in the words of the Secretary of Work Statement, Joaquín Pérez Rey, due to the great reduction of temporary jobs and the increase in indefinite in recent years, after the labor reform of 2022. “We have figures that until now were unknown of indefinite contracts”, has put in value Pérez. In July, 609,964 indefinite contracts have been registered, which represents almost 40% of the total subscribers.
The weight of temporary workers among the total number of people working affiliated with Social Security is touching the historical minimum reached in previous months, in 13.5% in July, “compared to 32.6% they supposed in 2018,” says Social Security. “This improvement is even more remarkable among workers under 30, who have a temporality rate of 23.5% when seven years ago they had exceeding 55.2%,” adds the department of Elma Saiz.
2.4 million unemployed people
The registered strike was reduced by 1,300 people in July, until the total number of unemployed to the public employment offices in 2,404,606 people. This is the lowest data in 17 years, at 2008 levels, before the large increase in the financial crisis. In the last year, unemployment has been reduced by 145,631 people, which represents 5.7% less.
The descent of this July is reduced if the records of this month of the historical series are attended, the second worst data since 2008, only behind the increase of 2022 (3,200 people).
Regarding June, a decrease in the previous useless collective of 3,315 people (-1.45%) has been noted and unemployment in the agricultural sector has also been reduced in 614 people (0.78%). On the contrary, it has risen slightly in construction in 138 people (0.08%), in the industry (with 416 people, 0.22%) and in services with 2,018 people (0.12%).
The Ministry of Labor emphasizes that the unemployment of young people under 25 has dropped in July in 2,561 people compared to the previous month (-1.54%) and that “it is at its lowest level in a month of July since there are records.” “There are 164,146 people, after experiencing successive declines for 51 months, that is, for four years and three months,” they emphasize in the Yolanda Díaz Ministry.
Female unemployment is located for the second month below the 1.5 million threshold (1,459,983 women), while the male remains below a million (944,623 men), yet data yet still high and who have not descended at levels prior to the great recession. The Ministry of Labor presented a few weeks ago the strategy of active employment policies for the coming years, in which it highlighted its focus on more vulnerable groups, such as long -term unemployment. Regarding unemployment protection, in recent years it has increased its coverage, until approaching 80% of unemployed people.
Source: www.eldiario.es
