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The number of unemployed registered in the offices of the public employment services shot up 8%, in 282,891 unemployed last April , their biggest rise in the fourth month of the year of the entire historical series, due to the crisis caused by the coronavirus, according to data from the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy published today.
The total volume of unemployed thus reached the figure of 3,831,203 unemployed at the end of April , which is 667,637 more than a year ago . Catalonia, Madrid and the Valencian Community were the territories hardest hit by the crisis, from which no autonomous community was spared. Work activity fell to a minimum with the conclusion of 673,000 contracts, almost a third of the more than 1.7 million made a year ago.
Regarding Social Security affiliation, the records saw the number of affiliates drop by 4%, to 18,396,362. This is the data with the system closed on the last day of the month and the one that best reflects the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on membership. from mid-March, when the state of alarm was declared, until the end of April, the loss of members of the system reached 947,896 employed . However, the rate of reduction in members is much lower than that registered in March, when employment fell by almost 834,000 people.
The Ministry of Social Security published for the first time the number of workers affected by temporary employment regulations (ERTE) at the end of April, which would amount to 3.3 million people , of which 90% would be under the formula of Force Majeure.
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