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Wages Guarantee Fund. Companies, workers and benefits. Provinces

Wages Guarantee Fund. Companies, workers and benefits. Provinces 2008
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Companies affected 4,588 504 258 527 5,877 24,432 24.1
By insolvency 2,274 191 158 201 2,824 13,630 20.7
By regulation 2,314 313 100 326 3,053 12,007 25.4
Beneficiary workers 18,371 1,289 793 1,284 21,737 90,320 24.1
By insolvency 12,799 583 487 639 14,508 63,312 22.9
By regulation 5,572 706 306 645 7,229 27,008 26.8
Benefits agreed (1) 114,614 5,966 3,147 4,444 128,171 434,018 29.5
By insolvency 96,198 4,158 2,149 3,153 105,659 355,611 29.7
By regulation 18,416 1,808 998 1,290 22,512 78,407 28.7
Source: Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración.
Note: (1) In thousands of euros.

Last update: September 17, 2010.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Wages guarantee fund
Autonomous administrative body run by the Ministry of Employment and Social Security whose aim is to guarantee, to the workers in the name of another party, that they will receive wages pending payment by the company, and any corresponding compensations or other contributions in accordance with current legislation. There are two reasons for this action: bankruptcy of the company, or suspension of payments, closures and others, and redundancy.

Methodological aspects

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".