Workers affected by ERE fell by 58.2% in the first … – Qué.es

Workers affected by ERE fell by 58.2% in the first … – Qué.es

Six out of ten workers were engaged in proceedings where the alleged cause was economic

MADRID, 25 (EUROPA PRESS)

The number of workers affected by redundancy Employment (ERE) authorized by the labor authorities or communicated to imports fell 58.2% in the first six months of the year compared to the same period in 2013, to add 91.169 affected, as reported Monday the Ministry of Employment in a statement.

The immersed in a process of regulating employment companies decreased 50.4% compared to January-June 2013, a total of 6,898, while the records were down 51.5% to 8,294 procedures .

By type of procedure, the number of workers affected by redundancies until June fell 53.6% year on year, adding up to 19,535 workers. Suspensions of contract and reduced working hours affecting 51,754 workers, 59.6% less, while the records affected by reduced working hours fell 58.4% to 19,880 workers.

Of the total procedures recorded until June, 7,719 had agreement between the parties, 51.7% less than in the first six months of 2013, while 575 were made without agreement, 48.9% less.

SIX IN TEN IN AN ECONOMIC ERE.

Of the 91.169 workers affected by ERE until June, six out of ten, 55,831 workers were involved in a process for economic reasons.

In this section, the processes in which the companies claimed actual losses affecting 32,349 workers, while decreasing the level of income or sales affected 11,120 employees. The loss forecast used by companies to justify ERE 554 affected workers.

In addition, workers affected by ERE technical reasons until June totaled 1,063, those affected by organizational causes totaled 7,540, the production amounted to 25,715 and force majeure, to 1,020.

The main development in the reform of the labor market in relation to the ERE is the elimination of the previously required administrative approval to proceed with the realization of collective measures or suspension of contract or reduction in working hours by the employer layoffs.

However, the new regulation maintains the need for a period of consultation is conducted with representatives of workers while the intervention of the labor authority to ensure the effectiveness of the consultation period is set, but without this decisive.

The final decision will therefore be that of the employer, as in the case of individual dismissals, if not agree, workers will have to challenge it through the courts.

Of the 91.169 employees affected by ERE in the first half, 27,741 come from companies with 50 to 249 employees, 15,452 part templates between 10 and 24 workers and 13,340 companies are 1-9 workers.

For companies 25-49 workers affected 12,977 workers were recorded, and those of 1000-4999 was 5,706 employees engaged in an ERE. In over 5,000 direct employees, registered until June ERE affected 2,797 workers.

INDUSTRY AND SERVICES SECTORS AFFECTED MORE.

The majority of workers affected by ERE authorized / notified until June came from industry (41,571), a decrease of 60.1% over the previous year, and the services, which cut by 57.7% the number of workers affected, adding up to 38,382 . In construction, the affected totaled 10,325 (-52.7%) and agriculture, 891 (-34.2%).

By region, which recorded a higher number of workers engaged in employment regulations until June were Catalonia, with 12,467 workers involved (-60.8%); Basque Country, with 11,747 affected (-53.4%); Madrid, involved 11,151 (-60.4%) and Andalusia, with 9,442 workers affected (-40%).

In all communities declines occurred in workers affected by ERE in the first half . In relative terms, the regions where workers affected by decreased ERE were Canarias (-74.7%), Asturias (-73%), Cantabria (-68.5%) and Murcia (-67.9%).