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

Redundancies. Reports and workers affected. Counties and areas 2011
Workers affected
Authorised reports Extinction Suspension Reduction Total
Alt Camp 48 84 204 183 471
Alt Empordà 51 17 417 82 516
Alt Penedès 66 188 220 271 679
Alt Urgell 6 0 87 5 92
Alta Ribagorça 2 0 19 0 19
Anoia 50 88 456 381 925
Bages 134 235 657 1,598 2,490
Baix Camp 80 192 333 368 893
Baix Ebre 71 52 279 242 573
Baix Empordà 47 11 444 55 510
Baix Llobregat 329 1,236 1,885 3,419 6,540
Baix Penedès 40 29 129 124 282
Barcelonès 916 5,260 6,610 5,415 17,285
Berguedà 17 52 29 51 132
Cerdanya 6 10 9 9 28
Conca de Barberà 13 12 105 162 279
Garraf 53 134 984 237 1,355
Garrigues 4 0 56 1 57
Garrotxa 17 63 238 36 337
Gironès 133 443 876 292 1,611
Maresme 130 116 289 947 1,352
Montsià 93 52 224 428 704
Noguera 7 12 37 38 87
Osona 115 286 223 938 1,447
Pallars Jussà 6 12 15 6 33
Pallars Sobirà 1 0 0 2 2
Pla d'Urgell 10 10 264 2 276
Pla de l'Estany 32 74 520 14 608
Priorat 4 0 13 16 29
Ribera d'Ebre 4 0 2 14 16
Ripollès 7 4 80 4 88
Segarra 12 36 91 0 127
Segrià 122 251 253 329 833
Selva 69 136 950 209 1,295
Solsonès 9 5 34 12 51
Tarragonès 144 340 404 364 1,108
Terra Alta 2 0 0 11 11
Urgell 23 27 156 41 224
Val d'Aran 1 0 0 5 5
Vallès Occidental 468 1,707 3,037 3,666 8,410
Vallès Oriental 206 632 1,299 1,633 3,564
Catalonia 3,548 11,806 21,928 21,610 55,344
Metropolità 2,049 8,951 13,120 15,080 37,151
Comarques Gironines 356 748 3,525 692 4,965
Camp de Tarragona 289 628 1,059 1,093 2,780
Terres de l'Ebre 170 104 505 695 1,304
Ponent 178 336 857 411 1,604
Comarques Centrals 275 578 943 2,599 4,120
Alt Pirineu i Aran 22 22 130 27 179
Penedès 209 439 1,789 1,013 3,241
Source: Ministry for Business and Labour.
Notes:
Workers affected by authorised procedures.
Law 23/2010, of July 22, on the creation of the area of Penedès, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas. This change implies that the data for the Metropolitan Area, Central Counties and Camp de Tarragona are not directly comparable with previous years.

Last update: February 29, 2012.

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.