The 'real' unemployment did not fall in October: with the fixed-discontinuous without activity it increased by 138,000 people
Yolanda Díaz,
Second Vice President and Minister of Labor, has come out this Friday in defense of the
reliability of the unemployment data,
in the face of criticism from
the academic world
and
the Popular Party
because
they do not reflect the reality of workers with discontinuous fixed contracts
who They have stopped working, and they have accused the PP of being "
Trumpist
" when interpreting the statistics.
"A leader must value the things that are being done in his country in a positive way.
I ask the right wing
of our country to rise to the occasion and
stop doing 'trumpism
' with the unemployment data and the economic data It seems
serious
to me that the institutionality is being attacked as it is being done with the country's right," he said in direct reference to
Alberto Núñez Feijóó.
The leader of the PP echoed this Thursday the complaint by Fedea, the largest independent
think tank
in the country, which warned this week that the SEPE unemployment data
did not reflect in October some 138,000
discontinuous permanent workers who
had left in October
to work.
Díaz has repeated the same explanation given by the Secretary of State for Employment,
Joaquín Pérez Rey,
who stressed yesterday in the Senate and also today at a press conference that
unemployment data has been counted in this way since 1985
and that they are the SEPE officials, both nationally and regionally, who carry out this account.
Even so, what the
experts
and
economists
are precisely asking for is that
this quantification method be modified
, since it was valid when the discontinuous permanent workers had a residual weight over the total affiliation, but they give rise to confusion now that they have a significant weight , by covering 6% of affiliates.
Díaz recalled that since 1985, no government, not even those of the PP, "has moved a comma from how it is computed."
He has specified that permanent-intermittent
workers are not counted as unemployed because "they are not actively looking for employment"
, and added that it is done in the same way in the rest of Europe.
"That Mr. Feijóo is unaware that a comma has not moved in how it is computed, having governed the PP in Spain for 14 years, it seemed to me a singularity. Either it was a true ignorance or his advisers had advised him badly.
I think it is very serious ",
the minister insisted.
She has not mentioned
, however,
any of the economists' requests
or their questioning of the SEPE methodology.
In addition, he has reminded the opposition that the competence in the computation of employment data is autonomous and that the SEPE
is only in charge of compiling them.
"Are you telling us that when (José María)
Aznar
and (Mariano)
Rajoy
governed they were making up the data? (...) Are you telling us that (Alfonso)
Rueda
(president of the Junta de Galicia), (Isabel Díaz )
Are Ayuso
(president of the Community of Madrid) or (Juan Manuel)
Moreno Bonilla
(president of Andalusia) masking the data?" Díaz ironized.
The minister has warned of the seriousness of resorting to " economic
trumpism
" to challenge the data and question the economic statistics, at a time when these figures "are doing well" in the country.
This same Friday the SEPE has reported that unemployment in November fell by 33,500 people to its lowest level for a month of November since 2007.
Escrivá supports her
The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations, José Luis Escrivá, came out in defense of his work counterpart and assured that the criticism of discontinuous permanent workers being counted as permanent in government statistics is a
"desperate and distressing attempt to dirty some extraordinary data on the labor market".
In an interview on RTVE's 24-hour channel collected by Servimedia, when asked about Fedea's criticism, the minister stated that "
there is no change" when accounting for discontinuous landlines
and explained that if they are not active , is not listed as an affiliate.
He called the controversy "spurious," "sterile" and "amplified" and asked to "read the reports."
He elaborated on his criticism, noting that there is "a desperate and anguished attempt to
smear some extraordinary
labor market data" and added that it "has no basis."
Escrivá defended that the new regulation of discontinuous permanent workers in the labor reform, after the disappearance of the work and service contract, has caused "the reduction of precariousness in the labor market."
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