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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 2015
Workers affected
Procedures Extinction Suspension Reduction Total
Alt Camp 11 7 30 6 43
Alt Empordà 18 7 48 29 84
Alt Penedès 10 31 25 4 60
Alt Urgell 3 2 8 0 10
Alta Ribagorça 0 0 0 0 0
Anoia 14 47 123 1 171
Aran 1 0 1 1 2
Bages 19 9 543 35 587
Baix Camp 21 115 32 31 178
Baix Ebre 11 0 110 25 135
Baix Empordà 15 57 46 60 163
Baix Llobregat 69 222 703 144 1,069
Baix Penedès 5 0 57 12 69
Barcelonès 251 3,335 1,784 487 5,606
Berguedà 3 0 10 4 14
Cerdanya 2 0 6 0 6
Conca de Barberà 4 0 12 3 15
Garraf 21 98 125 17 240
Garrigues 2 0 4 0 4
Garrotxa 6 0 42 12 54
Gironès 34 122 256 19 397
Maresme 32 142 305 66 513
Moianès 1 0 2 0 2
Montsià 33 42 96 54 192
Noguera 2 0 0 3 3
Osona 18 317 117 8 442
Pallars Jussà 6 9 21 3 33
Pallars Sobirà 0 0 0 0 0
Pla d'Urgell 4 15 15 20 50
Pla de l'Estany 6 0 26 3 29
Priorat 0 0 0 0 0
Ribera d'Ebre 4 0 16 8 24
Ripollès 2 0 4 4 8
Segarra 5 0 55 0 55
Segrià 31 65 139 27 231
Selva 31 2 216 65 283
Solsonès 0 0 0 0 0
Tarragonès 33 280 57 51 388
Terra Alta 2 0 13 2 15
Urgell 4 0 57 0 57
Vallès Occidental 88 615 438 199 1,252
Vallès Oriental 54 199 471 111 781
Catalonia 876 5,738 6,013 1,514 13,265
Metropolità 495 4,513 3,703 1,007 9,223
Comarques Gironines 112 188 638 192 1,018
Camp de Tarragona 69 402 131 91 624
Terres de l'Ebre 50 42 235 89 366
Ponent 48 80 270 50 400
Comarques Centrals 41 326 674 47 1,047
Alt Pirineu i Aran 12 11 36 4 51
Penedès 49 176 326 34 536
Source: Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Families. Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu.
Note: Workers affected by non-withdrawn and authorized resolved announcements.

Last update: November 3, 2016.

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.