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

Redundancies. Procedures and workers affected. Counties and Aran, and Aran, and areas 2022
Workers affected
Procedures Extinction Suspension Reduction Total
Alt Camp 20 93 1,262 11 1,366
Alt Empordà 28 91 82 75 248
Alt Penedès 17 83 483 27 593
Alt Urgell 3 0 5 1 6
Alta Ribagorça 0 0 0 0 0
Anoia 19 0 229 39 268
Aran 4 0 15 1 16
Bages 34 24 1,071 53 1,148
Baix Camp 15 0 36 44 80
Baix Ebre 7 0 33 52 85
Baix Empordà 17 25 118 10 153
Baix Llobregat 204 390 29,082 710 30,182
Baix Penedès 17 25 323 3 351
Barcelonès 612 2,184 5,785 1,982 9,951
Berguedà 2 0 33 46 79
Cerdanya 3 0 10 1 11
Conca de Barberà 1 0 7 0 7
Garraf 21 341 41 77 459
Garrigues 2 31 2 0 33
Garrotxa 6 15 62 8 85
Gironès 32 43 136 179 358
Maresme 74 249 776 150 1,175
Moianès 0 0 0 0 0
Montsià 15 14 29 73 116
Noguera 12 32 103 74 209
Osona 19 17 198 226 441
Pallars Jussà 0 0 0 0 0
Pallars Sobirà 3 0 3 0 3
Pla d'Urgell 6 0 36 22 58
Pla de l'Estany 14 0 288 129 417
Priorat 0 0 0 0 0
Ribera d'Ebre 5 0 30 11 41
Ripollès 2 0 2 0 2
Segarra 0 0 0 0 0
Segrià 28 172 90 24 286
Selva 41 32 1,678 113 1,823
Solsonès 0 0 0 0 0
Tarragonès 25 51 184 31 266
Terra Alta 0 0 0 0 0
Urgell 2 0 0 18 18
Vallès Occidental 217 950 9,517 858 11,325
Vallès Oriental 99 343 2,279 230 2,852
Catalonia 1,626 5,205 54,028 5,278 64,511
Metropolità 1,206 4,116 47,439 3,930 55,485
Comarques Gironines 140 206 2,366 514 3,086
Camp de Tarragona 61 144 1,489 86 1,719
Terres de l'Ebre 27 14 92 136 242
Ponent 50 235 231 138 604
Comarques Centrals 56 41 1,338 325 1,704
Alt Pirineu i Aran 13 0 33 3 36
Penedès 73 449 1,040 146 1,635
Source: Ministry of Business and Labour.
Note: Workers affected by non-withdrawn and authorized resolved announcements.

Last update: February 1, 2023.

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.