Almost 4,800 people lost their jobs due to collective dismissal in July, a record since 2013
A total of 4,778 workers lost their jobs in July due to a collective dismissal, 78% more than in the same period of the previous year and the highest figure for this month since 2013, in the midst of the economic crisis, when they went to work. street for this reason 7,048 employees.
This is reflected in the Employment Regulation Statistics published by the Ministry of Labor this week, according to which 22,854 people have lost their jobs so far this year due to a collective dismissal, compared to the 16,000 to whom the same thing happened in the same period last year.
Transportation and storage have been the areas of activity in which there has been the most destruction of jobs (1,699 in July), possibly due to its connection with industry, the sector that has suffered the most in the last quarter and where the most has been noted the drop in international orders; followed by financial and insurance activities (with 736 casualties), trade and repair of motor vehicles (597) and professional, scientific and technical activities (with 397).
The Community of Madrid is the region in which there were the most layoffs (1,662), followed by Catalonia (1,043), Andalusia (729) and the Valencian Community (559).
Almost half of the employees who were affected by this type of restructuring work in large companies, with more than a thousand workers; 37% are part of companies with between 250 and a thousand employees; 291 were from medium-sized companies – with between 50 and 250 workers – and 849 belonged to companies with staff of less than 50 employees.
Regarding the reasons why the company resorted to a collective dismissal, in half of the cases it was because it was suffering losses at the time of the dismissal, while the next most common cause was the dynamics of production itself: Given the drop in orders, less staff is needed.
Along with the 4,778 workers who were victims of an ERE, there were also 7,271 in the month of July whose contracts were temporarily suspended and who were sent to unemployment within the framework of an ERTE (32.2% more than in the same month of the previous year) and 566 whose working hours were reduced.
In total, 12,615 employees suffered a restructuring, of which half (6,603) belong to the industrial sector – and, in particular, the manufacturing industry – where the number of people affected has grown by 1,745 people.. Services are the second sector with the most impact (5,706 workers, 1,516 more than in July 2022), while in construction there have only been 215 employees affected and in the field, 94.
Valencia leads the restructuring
If all types of restructuring are taken into account, the Valencian Community is the one with the most affected workers (3,256 in July), among other things due to the impact that the drop in activity at the Ford plant has had on the region. in Almussafes (Valencia) or the crisis of the ceramic and tile industry in Castellón; followed by the Community of Madrid (1,985) and Catalonia (1,672). In August, 185,385 jobs were lost in the country, as is usual, with education, construction and industry being the darkest sectors; while in the first fifteen days of September 59,000 jobs were lost.
This month is usually positive for the labor market; In fact, since 2013 there has not been a September in which jobs have been lost, not even in 2020, but the behavior of the first fortnight and the slowdown in activity predicted by the PMI indices cast doubt on the behavior of employment, which will be known next Tuesday.
“The new reductions in activity were accompanied by a new slowdown in employment growth, since the rate of job creation in services was the weakest since last January,” warned the latest PMIs, while in industry ” “employment levels rose for the first time in three months, although only slightly.”