Yolanda Díaz recoils from criticism and instructs her technicians to break down the discontinuous landlines

• Díaz refuses to give the number of discontinuous companies without activity and disdains the criticism of experts: "This controversy is quite artificial"

Yolanda Díaz,

the second vice president of the Government and Minister of Labor,

regarding the

without activity that are not included in the unemployment statistics, going from denying that there was any distortion in the data - as denounced by the leading economists in the country - to

to

According to government sources, the vice president has asked the technical teams of the State Public Employment Service (

) to

on employees with a permanent discontinuous contract, in order to know how many are active and how many don't

This is one of the main requests that studies such as

considering that it is necessary to know how many discontinuous landlines are out of work and collecting the unemployment to know the true reality of the labor market.

Discontinuous

workers who do not work cannot be considered unemployed because they do have a job and a valid contract, but since they are inactive and in many cases receiving the benefit, they could be considered

, hence the request that the Ministry post how many of them each month are out of work.

Until now, the Ministry argued that the discontinuous fixed lines are computed in the statistics in the same way that they have been done in Spain

and that they did not have the data that was requested, but, given that their weight has gone from being testimonial to assuming almost

, more and more voices are asking for a breakdown of figures.

UGT was the last to request this Monday that the Government provide this information "immediately", as this medium has already reported.

Criticism from the academic sector has also been used by opposition parties, especially the

, to

which in recent months has behaved very positively.

Faced with this barrage of criticism and accusations of opacity, which at first were described by the vice president as "Trumpism", Díaz has now agreed to request this data for the sake of "transparency", as it became known this Tuesday.

According to the

, published this week by the Ministry of Labour, there are a total of

-a category that includes discontinuous permanent workers without activity but also workers affected by a Temporary Employment Regulation File (ERTE), among others-.

This is the closest record that allows us to point out how many discontinuous landlines do not work: although it is not an exact figure, it seems that

Last week, the Secretary of State for Employment and Social Economy

insisted on defending that there is no "concealment" or "statistical change" in the way of accounting for workers with a permanent discontinuous contract and pointed out that the PP "must being very bored and overwhelmed" with the improvement in employment stability figures "when the only way to contribute to your country" is

"That all this temporality that generated very serious problems of operation and guarantee of rights has been redirected to the discontinuous fixed

and for this reason it attributes it to statistical elements," the Secretary of State pointed out.

In addition, he demanded that the PP say "a single month of a single year" in which the Ministry of Labor has published the data of inactive discontinuous fixed.

"It was not provided because it was not given.

," explained Pérez Rey, who, yes, indicated that when this figure is achieved with "guarantees" statistics will be provided.

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