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

Redundancies. Reports and workers affected. Counties and areas 2014
Workers affected
Reports Extinction Suspension Reduction Total
Alt Camp 21 13 56 43 112
Alt Empordà 36 34 131 271 436
Alt Penedès 38 257 254 20 531
Alt Urgell 4 2 11 1 14
Alta Ribagorça 0 0 0 0 0
Anoia 39 98 660 90 848
Bages 56 96 662 64 822
Baix Camp 30 55 57 83 195
Baix Ebre 29 0 260 43 303
Baix Empordà 36 54 138 84 276
Baix Llobregat 157 866 1,276 619 2,761
Baix Penedès 12 3 81 14 98
Barcelonès 472 3,065 2,625 1,093 6,783
Berguedà 11 0 57 19 76
Cerdanya 5 0 31 2 33
Conca de Barberà 3 22 7 1 30
Garraf 23 20 309 28 357
Garrigues 9 42 46 5 93
Garrotxa 11 8 20 39 67
Gironès 54 338 369 44 751
Maresme 81 43 323 222 588
Montsià 66 11 185 106 302
Noguera 5 0 8 6 14
Osona 46 9 342 69 420
Pallars Jussà 6 0 23 7 30
Pallars Sobirà 0 0 0 0 0
Pla d'Urgell 9 0 207 2 209
Pla de l'Estany 14 6 55 9 70
Priorat 0 0 0 0 0
Ribera d'Ebre 9 0 68 15 83
Ripollès 11 0 71 6 77
Segarra 7 0 104 26 130
Segrià 81 140 456 199 795
Selva 46 64 444 71 579
Solsonès 5 0 54 2 56
Tarragonès 71 172 211 110 493
Terra Alta 2 0 11 1 12
Urgell 18 7 306 5 318
Val d'Aran 5 0 15 2 17
Vallès Occidental 179 595 2,999 387 3,981
Vallès Oriental 87 277 681 260 1,218
Catalonia 1,794 6,297 13,613 4,068 23,978
Metropolità 976 4,846 7,904 2,581 15,331
Comarques Gironines 208 504 1,228 524 2,256
Camp de Tarragona 125 262 331 237 830
Terres de l'Ebre 106 11 524 165 700
Ponent 129 189 1,127 243 1,559
Comarques Centrals 122 123 1,144 154 1,421
Alt Pirineu i Aran 20 2 80 12 94
Penedès 108 360 1,275 152 1,787
Source: Ministry for Business and Labour.
Notes:
Workers affected by authorised procedures.
From March 2014 onwards, eight municipalities in L'Anoia will change designation and will belong to El Penedès region of the Central Counties.

Last update: June 4, 2015.

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.