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

Redundancies. Reports and workers affected. Counties and areas 2013
Workers affected
Reports Extinction Suspension Reduction Total
Alt Camp 55 16 356 83 455
Alt Empordà 51 39 136 290 465
Alt Penedès 68 334 917 139 1,390
Alt Urgell 6 4 29 3 36
Alta Ribagorça 1 0 1 0 1
Anoia 66 74 779 157 1,010
Bages 134 309 1,779 131 2,219
Baix Camp 84 162 153 249 564
Baix Ebre 75 13 491 93 597
Baix Empordà 64 130 293 113 536
Baix Llobregat 387 2,035 14,074 1,273 17,382
Baix Penedès 30 56 204 60 320
Barcelonès 1,102 5,488 8,383 3,732 17,603
Berguedà 37 68 159 28 255
Cerdanya 9 0 34 2 36
Conca de Barberà 11 0 28 20 48
Garraf 62 121 1,536 129 1,786
Garrigues 4 0 27 2 29
Garrotxa 30 51 151 96 298
Gironès 164 376 778 312 1,466
Maresme 169 229 777 550 1,556
Montsià 97 49 321 165 535
Noguera 9 27 69 2 98
Osona 120 141 1,315 184 1,640
Pallars Jussà 10 0 23 15 38
Pallars Sobirà 3 28 9 0 37
Pla d'Urgell 16 28 269 4 301
Pla de l'Estany 33 32 252 24 308
Priorat 2 14 0 1 15
Ribera d'Ebre 13 0 117 14 131
Ripollès 20 6 135 33 174
Segarra 12 13 92 12 117
Segrià 137 206 485 302 993
Selva 98 337 805 250 1,392
Solsonès 12 93 50 8 151
Tarragonès 157 582 458 327 1,367
Terra Alta 4 10 33 2 45
Urgell 27 22 563 30 615
Val d'Aran 11 10 46 37 93
Vallès Occidental 480 1,279 6,222 1,147 8,648
Vallès Oriental 212 441 2,422 624 3,487
Catalonia 4,082 12,823 44,771 10,643 68,237
Metropolità 2,350 9,472 31,878 7,326 48,676
Comarques Gironines 460 971 2,550 1,118 4,639
Camp de Tarragona 309 774 995 680 2,449
Terres de l'Ebre 189 72 962 274 1,308
Ponent 205 296 1,505 352 2,153
Comarques Centrals 303 611 3,303 351 4,265
Alt Pirineu i Aran 40 42 142 57 241
Penedès 226 585 3,436 485 4,506
Source: Ministry for Business and Labour.
Note: Workers affected by authorised procedures.

Last update: July 2, 2014.

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.