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

Redundancies. Reports and workers affected. Counties and areas 2012
Workers affected
Reports Extinction Suspension Reduction Total
Alt Camp 69 87 394 137 618
Alt Empordà 70 279 451 163 893
Alt Penedès 123 104 1,826 230 2,160
Alt Urgell 6 13 21 6 40
Alta Ribagorça 3 0 5 2 7
Anoia 103 100 1,698 252 2,050
Bages 220 228 2,616 279 3,123
Baix Camp 106 285 289 470 1,044
Baix Ebre 108 25 431 126 582
Baix Empordà 77 88 961 81 1,130
Baix Llobregat 677 1,962 7,294 2,223 11,479
Baix Penedès 48 82 283 112 477
Barcelonès 1,760 7,350 12,327 6,254 25,931
Berguedà 39 61 261 143 465
Cerdanya 11 0 37 6 43
Conca de Barberà 20 64 152 11 227
Garraf 87 71 812 120 1,003
Garrigues 4 0 43 2 45
Garrotxa 30 68 271 21 360
Gironès 170 214 985 462 1,661
Maresme 270 486 1,594 777 2,857
Montsià 117 40 605 229 874
Noguera 17 65 165 10 240
Osona 178 247 1,856 413 2,516
Pallars Jussà 7 0 35 21 56
Pallars Sobirà 4 0 28 3 31
Pla d'Urgell 23 30 191 46 267
Pla de l'Estany 38 16 358 120 494
Priorat 2 0 7 11 18
Ribera d'Ebre 15 31 69 19 119
Ripollès 30 34 250 131 415
Segarra 9 9 24 18 51
Segrià 192 251 864 562 1,677
Selva 90 55 815 243 1,113
Solsonès 10 0 175 6 181
Tarragonès 213 334 714 476 1,524
Terra Alta 5 15 25 0 40
Urgell 35 25 282 48 355
Val d'Aran 3 10 1 6 17
Vallès Occidental 824 2,517 10,067 1,903 14,487
Vallès Oriental 372 882 5,280 1,105 7,267
Catalonia 6,185 16,128 54,562 17,247 87,937
Metropolità 3,903 13,197 36,562 12,262 62,021
Comarques Gironines 505 754 4,091 1,221 6,066
Camp de Tarragona 410 770 1,556 1,105 3,431
Terres de l'Ebre 245 111 1,130 374 1,615
Ponent 280 380 1,569 686 2,635
Comarques Centrals 447 536 4,908 841 6,285
Alt Pirineu i Aran 34 23 127 44 194
Penedès 361 357 4,619 714 5,690
Source: Ministry for Business and Labour.
Note: Workers affected by authorised procedures.

Last update: November 12, 2013.

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.