La creación de empleo se acelera y junio cerrará con 85.000 afiliados más, duplicando el aumento de los años previos a la pandemia

Job creation has accelerated in June, which is expected to end with an increase in Social Security members of 85,000 people, according to the experimental statistics prepared from the data of the first fortnight presented by the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, José Luis Escrivá. The growth in employment in June will allow the end of the first half of the year with an additional 271,000 employees, “a figure that shows the great dynamism of employment, despite the context of uncertainty at international level,” according to the minister.

“The dynamism of the month of June is being exceptional, much more intense than usual, even if compared to other months very good for employment,” said Escrivá. Specifically, the 85,000 jobs that will be created this month represent the highest monthly growth compared to years not affected by the pandemic, doubling the average growth of the 2016-19 period and that of the last months.

In daily membership, “the data also show enormous dynamism, with a new all-time high exceeding 20.4 million members.” These figures represent an increase of more than one million jobs compared to the pre-pandemic level.

“This growth in employment is based on a general increase in affiliation in all sectors of activity,” according to the minister, “since there is job creation both in more seasonal sectors, such as the hospitality industry, and in other activities.” In addition, it has highlighted the particularly intense growth that is taking place in sectors with high added value, such as informatics or scientific activities.

“In fact,” said the minister, “we have a level of employment that exceeds by more than 600,000 members the level that existed before the pandemic, with especially intense growth in sectors with high added value”, such as computer science (+15.2%), health (+7.9%) or science (+7.8%). In addition, the increase in membership is concentrated “in the private sector, which accounts for more than 90% of job creation in the last year and a half”.

“This dynamism of employment is being accompanied by an accentuation of the improvement of the quality of employment, as a result of labor reform,” said the Minister of Inclusion. In particular, the variation in the number of undefined contracts since the beginning of the year exceeds 1.4 million compared to previous years.

In addition, in June almost 80% of affiliates have an indefinite contract, a figure that is almost 10 percentage points higher than usual for previous June months. “That is to say,” explained Escrivá, “we have gone from indefinite members representing two out of three workers to four out of five, a very substantial improvement in a very short period of time.”

“This behavior is especially noticeable in some groups, such as young people,” said Escrivá. Specifically, among those under 30 years of age, the percentage of participants with an indefinite contract has grown by 26 percentage points compared to the average of previous years, from 37% to 63%.

In addition, “another of the effects of the labor reform that is noticeable in the contracting is the increase of those of longer duration, compared to the sharp decrease that the one-day contracts are registering.” Specifically, until June 14, 438,000 more contracts have been signed than usual for 30 days or more, while the number of one-day contracts has fallen by 830,000 compared to the average at this time in the years prior to the pandemic. Simultaneously, the average duration of contracts extinguished during the year continues to grow, which is already 22% higher than the pre-pandemic situation.

The dynamism of employment is also seen in other figures, such as the collection of social contributions, which grow at an annual rate of 8.1%, twice as usual in the years before the pandemic, after the strong increase experienced in 2011 (+10%).

Finally, Escrivá has highlighted the rapid labour integration of people who came from the Ukrainian war. According to Social Security data up to May 31, there were 6,907 people who had obtained temporary protection occupied. Five sectors of activity (hospitality, construction, agriculture, trade and professional services) account for 60% of the new affiliates with temporary protection.