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Wages Guarantee Fund. Companies, workers and benefits. Provinces

Wages Guarantee Fund. Companies, workers and benefits. Provinces 2016
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Companies affected 4,552 428 432 827 1,390 36,642 3.8
Beneficiary workers 16,811 1,324 1,292 2,392 21,819 147,590 14.8
Benefits agreed ( thousands of euros) 123,053 10,363 9,519 19,278 162,212 1,043,069 15.6
Source: Spanish Ministry of Employment and Social Security.
Note: The number of companies affected in Catalonia does not correspond to the sum of the four provinces, because a company may be located in more than one province.

Last update: July 6, 2017.

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 "..".