Díaz advances that Social Security already has greater than 22 million members within the official registry | Economy | EUROtoday

Now it is official: Spain has reached 22 million Social Security affiliations. This was introduced this Friday by the second vp of the Government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, after the controversy generated on Monday after the President of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, printed a video carrying a Spanish nationwide staff shirt with the quantity 22 on the again, asserting that Spain already had 22 million contributors to the system. A couple of minutes later, Social Security made public the information from the registration of affiliations for March and it was noticed that these 22 million affiliations have been solely registered within the seasonally adjusted sequence and never in the true figures of registrations within the administrative registry of Social Security. This mirrored a considerably decrease determine: 21,882,147 on the typical of whole associates in March. However, and in line with what the vp has stated, that threshold of twenty-two million has already been exceeded in the true figures recorded within the each day Social Security report (with which the month-to-month common for April will then be ready).

Sánchez’s announcement—who additionally skipped the knowledge embargo on the information, which the media can not publish earlier than 9:00 a.m.— motivated criticism, particularly from the PP, who accused him of “dressing up” the figures for having chosen the seasonally adjusted information.

This determine, which Social Security additionally prefers to spotlight month-to-month, is a statistical train by which, primarily based on the precise administrative report, calendar and seasonal results are eradicated. The information, correctly corrected, serves economists to higher analyze the pattern of what’s actually taking place within the labor market, fairly than the particular habits of the month in query.

Díaz settled this controversy this Friday in his speech on the convention European Pulse Forumorganized by the medium Political: “Today, right now these days, in a real, non-seasonally adjusted way, we do have 22 million people employed in Spain,” the minister stated at the start of her speech. What’s extra, he instantly assured that this quantity of registered employment “will be maintained throughout 2026.”

This won’t be troublesome for those who have in mind that there are nonetheless the central months to undergo, with the best hiring in Spain because of the tourism marketing campaign. Furthermore, it’s foreseeable that the greater than half one million immigrants who’re anticipated to go for the regularization introduced by the Government shall be added to the registry within the second half of the 12 months.

However, Díaz has gone again to what he has thought of the origin of this depth in job creation: the labor reform that started to be utilized in 2022, the results of an settlement between the Government and the employers and unions and that generalized the indefinite contract because the preliminary default, amongst different points. “For 40 years we were told in law schools that the problem of temporary employment in Spain could not be fixed… but the current situation is due to a regulatory framework, the result of social dialogue with a tripartite agreement, which changed the paradigm, by making stability in employment the norm, and this is being achieved and we are changing precariousness,” Díaz claimed. As an instance, he identified that earlier than stated reform solely 10% of the brand new contracts that have been signed have been everlasting and now 44% are. Furthermore, in sectors resembling development, the burden of non permanent contracts has dropped from 40% to 14%.

Along with this challenge, Díaz has highlighted two different points which have contributed to reaching 22 million Social Security affiliations: the modifications which have led to “in the face of crises, no one has to be fired because there are public resources to support companies and workers,” the minister stated. And, thirdly, he has cited the promotion of “a labor technique that has to go hand in hand with elevating salaries, not devaluing them as in [la reforma laboral del gobierno del PP de] 2012″, Díaz concluded.