Employment warns of a “cooling” of improving employment by political uncertainty – Yahoo Finance Spain

Risk states that are “accelerating extinctions of contracts by threats of amendments industrial relations framework”

MADRID, 2 (EUROPA PRESS)

secretary of State for Employment, Juan Pablo risk, warned Wednesday of a “cooling” of the improvement recorded in recent years by political uncertainty labor market, with a slowdown in hiring and an acceleration of the extinctions of contracts, although expected to be an “isolated incident” and “do not change the trend.”

This was stated at the press conference to present the data registered unemployment and affiliation the corresponding Social Security in February, showing an increase in unemployment for the second consecutive month, 2,231 people, and an increase of 63,355 members of the system.

“they are slowing hiring and accelerating extinctions of contracts by threats of amendments industrial relations framework, “noted Riesgo, who explained that” it is doing what until now was not moving into the labor market, as the slowdown in the international economy and some indicators national, this month itself. “

for his part, secretary of State for Social Security, Tomás Burgos, has said to expect that it is” a single event and do not change under trend “if well he assured that the PP is still “being in the government” and “very attentive” to the reality of the labor market.

in this sense, has acknowledged that “there are elements that move at least to care, tell no concern “, as in the seasonally adjusted data of the affiliation to the Social Security, which last February recorded a more moderate figure (32,492) than the same month last year (67,428), representing more than 50% fall.

Burgos explained that this figure has been affected by “more than the effect of agriculture”, which in February influenced especially by the end of the “good “campaign olives, and is linked to the performance of sectors such as services and construction, which are a” good barometer “of” slowing or temporary suspension of many decisions that may be affected by the situation of impasse political . “