Escrivá advances that employment will grow 30% less this month than in September of last year

• Companies use the trial period to lay off without cost after the end of temporary contracts

The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration,

announced this Monday that

will close with the

,

than those created in the same month of the previous year.

In

, job creation amounted to

;

while in

, it was

.

However, if the forecast presented today by the Ministry is fulfilled,

since 3,224 jobs were created in 2019;

in 2018, 22,899;

in 2017, 26,318;

in 2016, 12,025;

in 2015, 8,916 and in 2014, 12,182.

In all these years September ended with a creation of jobs lower than the current one, while

Even so, it is true that historically September has been preceded by a

for employment, something that has not happened in this 2022, in which 189,963 jobs were destroyed in August, so the balance of the two months August- September has not been so positive for the country.

In

terms , which the Ministry usually highlights, Escrivá has reported that September will close with the creation of

, also

than those created in September 2021 in seasonally adjusted terms, a total of 82,184, 0 .42% more than in the same month of 2020.

The minister highlighted that in August 2021, Spain recovered the pre-pandemic level of employment in the number of Social Security affiliates (since in the number of hours actually worked we are still 0.2% below, as the Bank warned last week). of Spain) and, since then,

So far in

400,000 new jobs

are recorded in seasonally adjusted terms.

Each month, on average, 44,000 jobs have been created so far this year, while in summer (June, July and August), monthly job creation has averaged 52,000 jobs, according to seasonally adjusted data from the Ministry.

"Despite the growing uncertainty, the data for the third quarter as a whole

highlighted

at a press conference.

The minister says that he has not detected

in employment and maintains that "everyone is behaving very reasonably".

"Those that had some weakness in the second half of July, such as construction, commerce and a little agriculture and education, are already at normal levels for this time of year or even higher. In this fine and daily analysis by sectors and subsectors,

he stressed.

In fact, Escrivá has highlighted that "despite what is falling, with a very complex international environment since the beginning of the year, with a rise in energy prices, hiring in Spain reflects forward-looking business decisions. These 400,000 jobs that created in 2022

(...) I am surprised by the reflections that this is going to go wrong when I should be analyzing why month after month this is resisting so well".

He lashes out at critical reports: "I'm surprised by the arrogance"

The minister has taken advantage of his speech to openly criticize institutions and organizations that present reports in which they doubt the effectiveness of their reforms, such as the

In the first place, he referred to the report published by some authors from the Bank of Spain last week, in which they estimated that an increase in the calculation period to 35 years for calculating the pension would mean a pension cut of 8%.

"

, which uses data that we have provided and that should not be very different from what we do in Social Security with broader sources of information. It is not a report, it only links to the authors, I hope that one day, given that the Bank of Spain publishes hundreds of reports by many authors, they will no longer be attributed to the Bank of Spain. Here

This is not about a cut of pensions in any case".

He has also referred to a report published this Monday by Fedea, in which the effectiveness of the reform of the Special Regime for Self-Employed Workers (

) and the

order to guarantee the sustainability of Social Security.

"Its author had options to make a reform of the RETA and I am surprised that someone who spent 7 years, even with absolute majorities, in charge of the management of Social Security makes

of a reform that has received acclaim from all and has achieved the consensus with all organizations and social agents and has been approved in Parliament with a very high result.

for great consensus and agreements

me ,

They are people installed in doing reforms like those of 2013 that neither reach consensus nor are approved and that die in time, and furthermore

such as messages from the European Commission," he complained.

Its target of criticism has also reached

, given that the job creation data it publishes in seasonally adjusted terms

, casting doubts on the advisability of replacing the reading of the average affiliation (the one that month by month registered in Social Security and which has traditionally been used to measure employment) by the seasonally adjusted series (statistically manipulated so that the monthly evolution is comparable; that is, that job creation in February can be compared with that in August).

"I think there has been

when seasonally adjusting, because

" Escrivá commented.

Regarding the information published this Monday by EL MUNDO, about the increase in the

to end labor relations due to the impossibility of using temporary contracts, as a result of the labor reform, Escrivá has described this practice as "

" and, "without ruling out specific cases", he has condemned "making the particular something general".

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