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Social Judicial Affairs. Matters resolved. By type of demand. Provinces

Social courts. Matters resolved. By type of demand. Provinces 2015
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Collective conflicts 264 21 13 37 335 2,934 11.4
Individual conflicts 31,692 2,930 2,007 3,951 40,580 267,794 15.2
Dismissals 15,640 1,476 946 1,651 19,713 110,092 17.9
Work contracts 16,052 1,454 1,061 2,300 20,867 157,702 13.2
Social Security benefits 12,431 900 535 1,164 15,030 93,628 16.1
Total matters resolved 44,387 3,851 2,555 5,152 55,945 364,356 15.4
Source: Spanish Ministry of Employment and Social Security.

Last update: May 10, 2017.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Social courts
Judicial bodies with competence for labour issues and Social Security in a provincial or inter-provincial area. The affairs these resolve can be classed as collective conflicts, individual conflicts and Social Security conflicts.

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 "..".