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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 2021
Workers affected
Procedures Extinction Suspension Reduction Total
Alt Camp 37 15 731 11 757
Alt Empordà 246 29 990 338 1,357
Alt Penedès 92 8 963 900 1,871
Alt Urgell 21 0 40 21 61
Alta Ribagorça 10 0 33 4 37
Anoia 88 7 1,381 160 1,548
Aran 153 0 477 130 607
Bages 148 105 2,490 455 3,050
Baix Camp 149 58 466 126 650
Baix Ebre 203 6 945 251 1,202
Baix Empordà 257 17 1,097 299 1,413
Baix Llobregat 700 1,096 22,483 1,957 25,536
Baix Penedès 106 8 1,250 188 1,446
Barcelonès 2,246 6,239 20,819 4,907 31,965
Berguedà 35 11 130 80 221
Cerdanya 79 0 216 44 260
Conca de Barberà 15 15 1,008 8 1,031
Garraf 122 24 866 141 1,031
Garrigues 7 23 17 0 40
Garrotxa 51 0 299 105 404
Gironès 156 62 892 292 1,246
Maresme 378 169 2,003 443 2,615
Moianès 8 0 21 6 27
Montsià 181 0 646 144 790
Noguera 24 0 79 28 107
Osona 133 168 1,478 311 1,957
Pallars Jussà 4 0 5 0 5
Pallars Sobirà 37 0 107 15 122
Pla d'Urgell 20 0 422 10 432
Pla de l'Estany 27 0 177 92 269
Priorat 14 0 122 4 126
Ribera d'Ebre 18 0 70 11 81
Ripollès 49 0 304 27 331
Segarra 11 0 57 28 85
Segrià 135 61 978 307 1,346
Selva 200 178 2,458 271 2,907
Solsonès 10 0 28 6 34
Tarragonès 297 147 1,588 239 1,974
Terra Alta 22 0 39 19 58
Urgell 24 0 121 52 173
Vallès Occidental 707 1,881 9,810 1,989 13,680
Vallès Oriental 246 679 3,190 524 4,393
Catalonia 7,466 11,006 81,296 14,943 107,245
Metropolità 4,279 10,064 58,310 9,820 78,194
Comarques Gironines 986 286 6,217 1,424 7,927
Camp de Tarragona 512 235 3,915 388 4,538
Terres de l'Ebre 424 6 1,700 425 2,131
Ponent 221 84 1,674 425 2,183
Comarques Centrals 332 284 4,142 858 5,284
Alt Pirineu i Aran 304 0 878 214 1,092
Penedès 408 47 4,460 1,389 5,896
Source: Ministry of Business and Labour.
Note: Workers affected by non-withdrawn and authorized resolved announcements.

Last update: February 1, 2022.

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.