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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 2020
Workers affected
Procedures Extinction Suspension Reduction Total
Alt Camp 669 6 6,366 645 7,017
Alt Empordà 3,446 97 19,598 2,481 22,176
Alt Penedès 1,725 373 11,542 3,254 15,169
Alt Urgell 446 0 1,677 280 1,957
Alta Ribagorça 109 0 337 16 353
Anoia 1,924 42 12,166 1,060 13,268
Aran 397 0 1,780 157 1,937
Bages 2,785 119 22,627 3,572 26,318
Baix Camp 3,395 42 15,263 1,705 17,010
Baix Ebre 1,380 0 5,090 585 5,675
Baix Empordà 3,017 55 15,694 1,505 17,254
Baix Llobregat 11,935 843 121,926 14,634 137,403
Baix Penedès 1,499 130 11,373 742 12,245
Barcelonès 43,458 3,786 306,402 55,400 365,588
Berguedà 712 248 3,382 382 4,012
Cerdanya 631 7 2,443 215 2,665
Conca de Barberà 300 0 3,946 347 4,293
Garraf 2,706 27 13,787 1,350 15,164
Garrigues 245 0 1,281 220 1,501
Garrotxa 1,026 0 5,380 1,663 7,043
Gironès 3,262 10 19,513 3,984 23,507
Maresme 7,020 230 38,372 5,613 44,215
Moianès 168 0 879 144 1,023
Montsià 1,167 0 4,366 344 4,710
Noguera 578 0 2,843 268 3,111
Osona 2,385 55 15,978 3,103 19,136
Pallars Jussà 239 0 768 36 804
Pallars Sobirà 196 0 519 27 546
Pla d'Urgell 483 0 2,951 364 3,315
Pla de l'Estany 556 3 3,338 516 3,857
Priorat 200 0 573 84 657
Ribera d'Ebre 217 0 754 37 791
Ripollès 533 47 2,327 310 2,684
Segarra 323 0 1,796 159 1,955
Segrià 3,281 132 17,637 2,373 20,142
Selva 2,891 199 17,749 2,728 20,676
Solsonès 308 0 1,216 198 1,414
Tarragonès 4,680 83 30,552 3,104 33,739
Terra Alta 120 0 392 46 438
Urgell 538 0 3,111 392 3,503
Vallès Occidental 13,544 1,156 110,525 23,234 134,915
Vallès Oriental 6,062 246 41,989 7,278 49,513
Catalonia 130,556 7,936 900,208 144,555 1,052,699
Metropolità 82,057 6,261 619,323 106,166 731,750
Comarques Gironines 14,731 411 83,599 13,187 97,197
Camp de Tarragona 9,244 131 56,700 5,885 62,716
Terres de l'Ebre 2,884 0 10,602 1,012 11,614
Ponent 5,448 132 29,619 3,776 33,527
Comarques Centrals 6,398 422 44,855 7,421 52,698
Alt Pirineu i Aran 2,018 7 7,524 731 8,262
Penedès 7,776 572 47,986 6,377 54,935
Source: 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Workers affected by non-withdrawn and authorized resolved announcements.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.

Last update: May 28, 2021.

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.