The

unemployment

has fallen in Spain in November for the

ninth consecutive month and the number of workers discharged from Social Security has grown, but remains in the country

231,812 workers

with no activity and charging a

public benefit,

according to data released Thursday by the ministries of Labor and Social Security.

This is the case of the

125,000 wage earners

who as of December 1 are still affected by a Temporary Employment Regulation File (

ERTE

), of suspension or reduction, and of the

106,180 self-employed

who have their business closed or half full and are receiving a

benefit for cessation of activity.

Both groups are counted in the

19.75 million members

of Social Security, since although they are without work they are still registered, hence the

effective employment

is around

19.5 million people.

This total number of workers includes both the

private sector

and the

public sector.

For the latter, there is only data at the end of October, when there were around

2.77 million employees

between civil servants and labor personnel of the Administration, so it is expected that they will be even more at the end of November.

Employment recovers

Bearing this in mind,

Raymond Torres

, director of conjuncture and international analysis of

Funcas

, explains to EL MUNDO that the

effective employment of the private sector

(not counting workers in ERTE and self-employed workers in cessation of activity) has

not yet recovered the level prior to the crisis,

but it is foreseeable that it will do so in December. Today there would be around

20,000 or 30,000 fewer workers

in Spain

than in February 2020.

To make this estimate, they take into account the evolution of the public sector in October and also that the sectors that have pulled employment in November are precisely those in which it tends to predominate, such as

education

(which has been responsible for half of the jobs in jobs created in November, 29,735) or

administrative activities and auxiliary services

(+16,835) and

Public Administration and Defense and Compulsory Social Security

(+9,597).

On the opposite side are sectors such as the

hospitality industry

(which has destroyed 62,633 jobs) and

health activities and social services

(which has 8,973 fewer workers than in October).

In global terms, however, taking into account

all the workers

registered with Social Security, employment has recovered the pre-pandemic level.

"The recovery of employment to levels prior to the health crisis is good news and, especially, its positive impact on

women, young people and those sectors that had suffered the most

from the pandemic and that are still facing the uncertainty of the evolution of the sanitary situation and possible limitations in the normal development of the activity ", has underlined the CEOE after knowing the data.

In the opinion of the employers, the fact that the labor market is out of step with growth prospects, which are constantly being revised downwards, shows that the

current labor framework

is adequate for labor relations and

"favorable to job creation ".

More workers but fewer hours worked

However, although the total number of Social Security affiliates has grown and is approaching the record of 20 million workers who wanted to get before the pandemic broke, it would be useful to know

how many of these employees work full time,

since The latest Labor Force Survey (EPA) revealed that the

number of hours actually worked

continues to be

6.3% lower at the end

of the third quarter

than before the COVID.

This means that there are

more workers

but the

total number of hours worked is lower

, which leads directly to thinking about temporary or part-time contracts, which are the subject of debate these days in the negotiation of the labor reform.

So far this year (January-November),

temporary contracts have increased by 19.8%

year-on-year to 15.76 million registered, compared to 13.15 that were signed in the same period of the previous year.

The

permanent contracts

are much less, 1.94 million at the end of November, but they have grown more than the temporary ones, since

35.2% more

have been signed

than in the first eleven months of 2020.

Within the temporary ones, the number of those who are

part-time

has increased by 28.3% year-on-year

, to 5.35 million;

while

full-time

temporary contracts

amount to 10.3 million so far this year, 15.2% more.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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