• Employment: Bittersweet EPA for Sánchez: 402,300 jobs are created in 2019, but it is the lowest figure since the recovery

The self-employed cut the number of employees in their care in 2019 for the first time since the beginning of the series (2011) , according to an ATA report, in which it is pointed out that the workers who depend on the self-employed decreased 1.1% Last year, up to 877,208 workers, almost 10,000 less than in 2018 .

At the same time, in 2019 the number of self-employed employers also decreased , by 1.3% , so that the total of self-employed persons with a salaried employee in charge stood at the end of the year at 428,465, which represents a reduction of 5,639 compared to 2018.

Consequently, ATA emphasizes that the size of companies run by freelancers has decreased, as well as all freelancers with dependent workers.

Specifically, the self-employed who have more than 5 workers fell 1.8% in 2019, to 44,451; those with four workers decreased 1.1%, to 24,936; those with three workers fell 0.7%, to 45,455; those who have two employees in their charge fell 1.2%, to 90,940, and those with only one worker were reduced by 1.4%, to 222,683 self-employed.

"The slowdown, instability, uncertainty are taking its toll on the self-employed and that is reflected in the employment they create. It is bad news that since 2011 the employment under the umbrella of the self-employed has been growing and in 2019 it I have reversed this trend, "lamented ATA President Lorenzo Amor.

The Special Scheme for Autonomous Workers (RETA) closed 2019 with 3,267,428 contributors, 14,389 self-employed more than a year earlier, according to Europa Press.

68.3% of the new 2019 freelancers were corporate freelancers. These added a total of 1,268,971 at the end of last year, 0.8% more than in 2018.

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