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Regulation of employment. Procedures and workers affected. Counties and Aran, and areas

Redundancies. Reports and workers affected (1). Counties and areas 2009
Workers affected
Authorised reports Extinction Suspension Reduction Total
Alt Camp 50 207 1,978 63 2,248
Alt Empordà 19 33 255 12 300
Alt Penedès 82 110 3,440 18 3,568
Alt Urgell 1 0 0 9 9
Alta Ribagorça 0 0 0 0 0
Anoia 77 348 1,987 187 2,522
Bages 197 871 4,709 312 5,892
Baix Camp 61 50 3,017 65 3,132
Baix Ebre 25 544 715 46 1,305
Baix Empordà 34 216 707 45 968
Baix Llobregat 547 2,054 36,296 606 38,956
Baix Penedès 37 127 996 27 1,150
Barcelonès 966 5,633 23,207 1,028 29,868
Berguedà 24 109 441 24 574
Cerdanya 2 12 0 1 13
Conca de Barberà 17 83 1,309 0 1,392
Garraf 46 151 1,413 37 1,601
Garrigues 4 11 29 0 40
Garrotxa 16 35 213 27 275
Gironès 77 341 1,116 209 1,666
Maresme 138 315 1,871 195 2,381
Montsià 46 58 429 28 515
Noguera 5 7 84 8 99
Osona 126 334 2,319 151 2,804
Pallars Jussà 0 0 0 0 0
Pallars Sobirà 0 0 0 0 0
Pla d'Urgell 2 34 0 0 34
Pla de l'Estany 25 0 489 18 507
Priorat 3 42 0 15 57
Ribera d'Ebre 11 93 222 4 319
Ripollès 20 210 317 367 894
Segarra 7 25 198 0 223
Segrià 62 180 265 99 544
Selva 73 360 1,767 434 2,561
Solsonès 18 194 383 42 619
Tarragonès 105 308 2,325 233 2,866
Terra Alta 2 9 1 0 10
Urgell 10 15 86 56 157
Val d'Aran 0 0 0 0 0
Vallès Occidental 740 2,612 18,909 752 22,273
Vallès Oriental 306 1,187 8,537 291 10,015
Catalonia 3,981 16,918 120,030 5,409 142,357
Metropolità 2,825 12,062 93,673 2,927 108,662
Comarques Gironines 264 1,195 4,864 1,112 7,171
Camp de Tarragona 273 817 9,625 403 10,845
Terres de l'Ebre 84 704 1,367 78 2,149
Ponent 90 272 662 163 1,097
Comarques Centrals 442 1,856 9,839 716 12,411
Alt Pirineu i Aran 3 12 0 10 22
Source: Departament de Treball. Servei d'Estudis i Estadístiques.
Note: Workers affected by authorised procedures.

Last update: April 6, 2010.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Regulation of employment
Number of cases presented by companies or legal representatives to request the suspension or termination of labour relations or reductions in the working day, for financial or other reasons, and that have been authorised by the labour authorities.

Methodological aspects

This includes collective layoff procedures that affect Catalonia, whether the procedure was managed by the Ministry for Business and Labour or the by Ministry for Employment and Social Security.

The source of the information is the statistical form that is filled in for each completed collective layoff procedure at the territorial services of the Ministry for Business and Labour or the Directorate General for Labour Relations and Quality in the Workplace of the Ministry for Business and Labour, or the Directorate General for Employment of the Ministry for Employment and Social Security.

Collective layoff procedures are classified by the following concepts:

  • form of conclusion: authorisations and non-dismissed, non-authorised and dismissed applications (also includes closed and inadmissible applications);

  • type: agreed and non-agreed (until 2009 authorised reports presented by workers and those of force majeure are classified as agreed; from 2010, on the understanding that for these procedures this information is not applicable, as is neither the case for reports affecting partners in cooperatives, they are classified as non-agreed);

  • effect: only holds for authorised procedures and non-dismissed applications and may be suspension or termination of the labour relations or a reduction in work hours. Early retirements are statistically considered to be terminations.

Since Royal Decree 801/2011 came into force, approving the Regulations on collective layoff procedures and public authority functions concerning collective relocations, suspension is understood to mean cessation of the activity affecting full days, whether these are continuous or alternate, while a reduction in work hours is defined as the temporary reduction of the workday by between 10% and 70%, calculated on the base of a daily, weekly, monthly or annual workday. Therefore the statistics on collective layoff procedures for the period between the entry in force of the Royal Decree on Law 10/2010 and the entry in force of Royal Decree 801/2011, in terms of suspension and reduction measures, must be interpreted with caution given these changes in association to the management of procedures and this should be taken into consideration when analysing the data time series.

Non-dismissed applications are procedures that were initiated from February 12, 2012 (entry in force of Royal Decree on Law 3/2012, of February 10, on urgent measures for the reform of the labour market). These are temporarily accounted for in accordance with the date of notification of the business decision at the end of the consultation period. Since February 12, 2012, authorised procedures only include those of force majeure and those affecting partners in cooperative companies.