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Regulation of employment. Procedures and workers affected. Counties and Aran, and areas

Redundancies. Reports and workers affected (1). Counties and areas 2010
Workers affected
Authorised reports Extinction Suspension Reduction Total
Alt Camp 32 27 243 127 397
Alt Empordà 70 83 470 109 662
Alt Penedès 60 167 390 204 761
Alt Urgell 5 0 72 0 72
Alta Ribagorça 0 0 0 0 0
Anoia 60 304 548 270 1,122
Bages 123 206 2,093 955 3,254
Baix Camp 41 155 209 186 550
Baix Ebre 42 20 509 56 585
Baix Empordà 96 17 388 32 437
Baix Llobregat 390 1,630 5,151 9,610 16,391
Baix Penedès 37 289 177 66 532
Barcelonès 842 4,992 7,545 3,004 15,541
Berguedà 29 68 227 73 368
Cerdanya 2 0 6 2 8
Conca de Barberà 12 35 188 34 257
Garraf 71 51 241 561 853
Garrigues 2 0 1 2 3
Garrotxa 13 30 160 13 203
Gironès 80 161 517 102 780
Maresme 119 323 573 286 1,182
Montsià 56 146 449 126 721
Noguera 6 85 7 14 106
Osona 102 121 894 700 1,715
Pallars Jussà 0 0 0 0 0
Pallars Sobirà 0 0 0 0 0
Pla d'Urgell 8 30 179 6 215
Pla de l'Estany 18 57 275 11 343
Priorat 3 0 8 40 48
Ribera d'Ebre 3 17 13 0 30
Ripollès 3 15 0 12 27
Segarra 8 50 133 1 184
Segrià 86 282 371 183 836
Selva 69 142 801 81 1,024
Solsonès 7 17 168 11 196
Tarragonès 97 372 392 116 880
Terra Alta 3 0 6 2 8
Urgell 11 34 313 18 365
Val d'Aran 3 0 24 0 24
Vallès Occidental 514 2,824 3,534 3,868 10,226
Vallès Oriental 196 920 2,109 1,244 4,273
Catalonia 3,319 13,670 29,384 22,125 65,179
Metropolità 2,192 10,907 19,543 18,777 49,227
Comarques Gironines 349 505 2,611 360 3,476
Camp de Tarragona 222 878 1,217 569 2,664
Terres de l'Ebre 104 183 977 184 1,344
Ponent 121 481 1,004 224 1,709
Comarques Centrals 321 716 3,930 2,009 6,655
Alt Pirineu i Aran 10 0 102 2 104
Source: Ministry for Business and Labour.
Note: Workers affected by authorised procedures.

Last update: March 31, 2011.

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.