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Regulation of employment. Procedures and workers affected. By sectors

Regulation of employment. Procedures and workers affected. By sectors Catalonia Workers affected. Total
Agriculture Industry Construction Services Total
2023 68 23,799 563 9,371 33,801
2022 164 47,158 490 16,699 64,511
2021 78 49,036 584 57,547 107,245
2020 5,102 208,411 49,555 767,348 1,052,699
2019 105 5,708 528 3,718 10,059
2018 82 2,689 174 2,686 5,631
2017 96 2,447 238 2,711 5,492
2016 89 5,242 830 5,252 11,413
2015 140 4,822 1,153 7,150 13,265
2014 178 12,155 1,809 9,836 23,978
2013 457 37,052 5,584 25,144 68,237
2012 347 43,301 9,445 34,844 87,937
2011 290 25,165 6,946 22,943 55,344
2010 836 41,200 5,334 17,809 65,179
2009 80 117,247 4,089 20,941 142,357
2008 85 25,031 1,125 3,982 30,223
2007 81 5,124 242 2,281 7,728
2006 103 6,041 212 2,109 8,465
2005 169 10,777 428 2,795 14,169
Source:
2005: Departament de Treball i Indústria. Servei d'Estudis i Estadístiques.
2006-2009: Departament de Treball. Servei d'Estudis i Estadístiques.
2010-2014: Ministry for Business and Labour.
2015-2019: Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Families. Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu.
2020-2023: Ministry of Business and Labour.
Notes:
Workers affected by non-withdrawn and authorized resolved announcements.
In 2020, the total Procedures and the totals of Affected Workers include temporary employment regulation files for which the company's economic activity division has not been well identified (unspecified), due to activity losses due to Covid-19.
Workers affected by authorised procedures. Cancelled notifications 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.

Last update: March 8, 2024.

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.