The emergence of the coronavirus at the beginning of the year and the hibernation of the economy between the months of March and June have destabilized the labor activity in Spanish companies beyond the five million people who were affected by unemployment and temporary regulation files of employment (ERTE) in April.

The absenteeism rate

has gone from 5.5% at the end of 2019 to the historical maximum of 8.9%

registered in the second quarter of the year due to the outbreak of the pandemic and due, "largely", to the increase in hours lost due to temporary disability.

The collapse of the effective agreed hours due to the massive use of ERTEs to compensate for hibernation has multiplied this effect, according to the IX

Adecco Report

on Healthy Company and Absenteeism Management.

Absences of more than a year due to common illness have soared by 27% and the health crisis leads to

a cost of absences of 8,000 million euros

, according to government figures collected in the study.

The Ministry of Social Security recognizes both people infected and isolated by the coronavirus, who start to receive 75% of the regulatory base from the day after they leave work, charged to the body's treasury.

According to Social Security,

only the temporary disability processes derived from the pandemic are estimated to affect 2.5 million workers

with an average duration of 18.3 days with an estimated total expenditure of 1,369 million euros.

The report recalls that from 2014 to 2019 inclusive, the agreed annual working hours remained "stable", slightly below 1,800 hours.

In fact, during 2019, the average agreed working day per worker and month was 1,794 hours.

However, the "sharp" drop in economic activity as a result of measures to combat the coronavirus led to a steep decline in

overtime, which in the second quarter of this year marked a new low

, the equivalent of 0.27 % of the agreed hours.

This, according to Adecco, confirms "the close link between overtime and the level of economic activity."

On the other hand, it highlights that during the second quarter of 2020 the hours lost due to absenteeism have increased "notably".

In fact, during April and June, hours lost due to absenteeism reached almost

125 hours in annualized terms, on average, for each employee.

According to Adecco, two thirds of the increase in absenteeism in the first half of 2020 is explained by the increase in temporary disability (common illness or non-work accident), as a direct effect of the pandemic.

Thus, the hours lost due to this reached, in the second quarter of 2020, almost 89 annualized hours per worker, double that in 2012 and 2013, reports Europa Press.

The remaining third of the increase in absenteeism is explained by a number of reasons, among which are the increase in hours not worked for leave (almost 17 hours annualized in the second quarter) and hours lost at the workplace.

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