Labor The Government still "does not know" how many inactive discontinuous landlines there are in Spain

The Government still "does not know" how many workers with a fixed discontinuous contract are inactive

Labor The Government still "does not know" how many inactive discontinuous landlines there are in Spain

The Government still "does not know" how many workers with a fixed discontinuous contract are inactive. Despite the fact that the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, promised to disaggregate the data more than a month ago, the Ministry of Labor has recognized black on white that not only is it not going to offer the information anymore, but it does not even have it. This is demonstrated by a parliamentary response to which EL MUNDO has accessed. In the document, the Ministry responds to PP Senator Teresa Ruiz-Sillero that there are no official figures, and does not provide a publication date.

The Andalusian senator's question was very direct: "How many workers with a full-time permanent discontinuous contract are in a situation of inactivity from January to December 2022, detailing the number by month? How many workers with a permanent discontinuous part-time are in a situation of inactivity from January to December 2022, detailing the number by months?

The response given by the Executive is that "in terms of contracts, the data that the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy knows and registers are those of the contracts entered into between companies and workers that are communicated to it by the Public Employment Services (state and regional) or directly by the company through the Contrat@ application, but is unaware of both the employment situation that these workers may maintain during the term of their employment contract and the continuity that their employment relationship may have over time ".

On January 10, this newspaper revealed that the second vice president of the Government had already commissioned her technicians to break down the data. On the 16th, she herself promised to the media to publish the disaggregated figures of the discontinuous landlines. Díaz promised to do what "has never been done", citing the different previous governments, and to break down the data, because "there is a lot of interest."

The Public State Employment Service (SEPE) should have already disaggregated all the information on employees with a permanent discontinuous contract, in order to know how many are active and how many are not. This is one of the main requests made by some of the main economic analysis houses, such as Fedea, BBVA Research, the Círculo de Empresarios, Funcas, the Institute of Economic Studies or EsadeEcPol, considering that it is necessary to know how many are without work and collecting unemployment to know the true reality of the labor market. In other words, to be able to have an "effective unemployment" figure.

The Ministry argues that discontinuous permanent workers who do not work cannot be considered unemployed because they do have a job and a valid contract, but since they are inactive and in many cases receiving the benefit, they could be called effectively unemployed. And that is the data that economists demand.

The PP accuses the Executive of "dressing up" the figures and carrying out "double accounting" in which thousands of "discontinuous permanent workers are not listed as unemployed" in the official figures. In parallel, an Adecco report has indicated that the average duration of the contracts for the fourth quarter of 2022 was "the lowest since 2006, standing at 46 days and having decreased by 11.1% compared to the fourth quarter of 2021".

Ruiz-Sillero also asked how many workers in ERTE are not included in the number of registered unemployed during the year 2022, and the Executive's response reveals that people in ERTE who are not counted as unemployed have risen 32% in four months, since from August 38,737 to December 51,096, 2022.

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