2023-05-17 04:15:00
Asturias was the autonomous community where discontinuous permanent jobs increased the most in April, according to data from the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations. In that month there were 13,561 people (7,757 women and 5,803 men) in the region hired under this modality, according to which the worker performs the work activity intermittently – when the employer requires it – but with a stable relationship over time. Specific, In Asturias there were 6,289 discontinuous fixed lines more than in April 2022, an increase of 86.5%, the highest in the country.
The increase coincided with Holy Week, which marks the start of the tourist season in Asturias. Something understandable, since the services sector (with activities such as the hotel or business) is where this contractual link abounds the most, which has been strongly strengthened with the latest labor reform and which has caused intense controversy by not specifying it in the statistics of employment at what time of the year this type of worker is carrying out activity or not.
Data from the Principality’s Public Employment Service (Sepepa) indicate that, of the 1,366 new discontinuous permanent contracts signed in April, the vast majority (84%, a total of 1,156) were in the service sector. In the rest of the activities, their creation was residual: 104 in industry, 72 in construction and 34 in agriculture.
This dynamic is in line with the outsourcing of the Asturian economy. Of the 375,814 members in Asturias in April in all Social Security schemes, 77% (a total of 289,915) belonged to the tertiary sector. In addition, they added 2,953 more affiliates compared to the month of March and 3,811 compared to a year ago.
Of the total of 18,029 new employment contracts signed in Asturias in April, 11,516 were temporary (7,287 full-time and 4,229 part-time) and 6,382 were indefinite. And these were distributed as follows: 3,211 full-time, 1,805 part-time and 1,366, the aforementioned permanent discontinuous ones.
At the same time that it registered the largest national increase in the fixed discontinuous variant compared to April 2022, Asturias was the second region, after the Basque Country (8.2%), where full-time permanent jobs grew the least, by 9, 33%, up to 162,701, according to Social Security. It was slightly surpassed by La Rioja (9.35%), Navarra (9.52%) and Castilla y León (9.96%).
Regarding part-time permanent workers, Asturias registered 41,448, with an interannual increase of 17.9%, in the middle range of the national table. This variable was led by Andalusia, with 27.2%.
On the contrary, in April there were 35,216 temporary full-time contracts in the region, 24% less than in the same month of 2022, and 11,878 part-time, a decrease of 44%. Where temporary full-time fell the most was Ceuta (-41.5%) and, part-time, the Valencian Community (-56%).
Although the Government has promised to break down in its statistics which discontinuous permanent workers are active and which are not (since these workers may be receiving an unemployment benefit in their inactivity stage and not appear as unemployed), it has not yet done so.
On May 4, the Secretary of State for Labor, Joaquín Pérez Rey, assured during the presentation of the affiliation data for April that the Executive is close to providing this information and that it will do so “at the next press conference or in the next, in any case throughout the summer”. The next press conference to communicate the affiliation and unemployment data for the month of May will be held on June 2, the Friday following the elections on Sunday, May 28.
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