Andalusia ended last year with 1,430,758 indefinite contracts, a figure much higher than that accumulated during 2021 that stood at 287,947, “which means that throughout 2022 we have managed to create 496.8% more contracts of this category, strengthening the effectiveness of the measures introduced in the Labor Reform, aimed at eliminating labor temporality and increasing the quality of employment in Spain,” stressed the delegate of the Government of Spain in Andalusia, Pedro Fernández.
On December 28, it was one year since the entry into force of the Labor Reform, a period during which the month of April stood out, in which 161,136 indefinite contracts were registered, followed by September, in which 150,210 were counted. “We started January 2022 with 34,967 new indefinite and progressively the figure has been growing to accumulate at the end of the year more than 1.43 million, data that endorses the measures introduced by the Government of Spain and discard the arguments against the economic policy undertaken by the Government of Spain during the legislature, which is proving that it works,” added Fernández.
He also referred to the number of workers covered by Temporary Employment Regulation Files ( s) at the end of 2022 in Andalusia, “another measure that has shown during and after the pandemic its effectiveness to protect workers, guarantee income to families and maintain the muscle of the businesswomen to resume growth after overcoming COVID-19,” he said. Thus, last December there were 1,875 workers in ERTE, 25,453 less than in the same month of 2021 (27,328), that is, a decrease of 93%.
Since April 2020, the Public Service of State Employment (SEPE) in Andalusia has paid 2,279 million euros in payroll for ERTE to a total of 576,333 workers, being May 2020 the month with the highest number of people registered, with 498,820 benefits.