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Date Published: 05/01/2022
ARCHIVED - Alicante trails behind in 2021 employment growth
The province of Alicante is the seventh worst in Spain for creating jobs
While Spain as a whole celebrates closing out 2021 with the lowest employment rate since 2007, Alicante is trailing behind and is one of the provinces to have experienced the least amount of job creation last year. According to the Ministry of Labour, Alicante is seventh from the bottom of the list and continues to have 8,334 more people out of work than before the pandemic.
The province ended the year with a total of 156,407 people on the unemployment line after a modest decrease of 7,187 over the Christmas period. Thus, Alicante has managed to close 2021 with a reduction of 29,702 compared to the unemployment figures of the previous year.
In addition, 3,199 people were still on ERTE in December, far fewer than the 23,366 figure of 2021.
However, this is still the highest rate in the Valencian Community.
One of the main reasons for the high unemployment in rate, according to the Head of Employment at UGT in l'Alacantí and La Marina, is the number of temporary contracts that continue to be handed out by businesses. Non-permanent employment currently represents 88% of all jobs in Alicante, data which confirms the need for the agreement reached in the labour reform, which introduces the necessary change to curb the use and abuse of this type of contracting”.
“That is why we demand that the generation of stable employment be promoted to discourage temporary employment and precariousness, the main hallmarks of our provincial labour market”, the UGT stressed.
Despite the disappointing unemployment rate, the number of people contributing to social security has actually exceeded pre-pandemic level, indicating that more jobs have been created in the province.
This fact alone, according to the region’s president Ximo Puig, “demonstrates the resilience of the Valencian Community in the face of the crisis generated by the Covid pandemic”.
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