Funcas highlights that affiliation has chained two months of "strong growth", despite the end of the ERTE

MADRID, 2 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Savings Banks Foundation (Funcas) has highlighted this Thursday that the number of Social Security affiliates has chained two months "of intense growth" despite the completion of the Temporary Employment Regulation Files (ERTE) by Covid.

After knowing the data corresponding to the month of May, the Foundation has valued, through a statement, that the affiliation increased in the fifth month of the year by 213,643 people, a figure that, in seasonally adjusted terms by Funcas, is equivalent to an increase 33,000 monthly. At the end of April, the number of workers in ERTE was 33,000 and, at the end of May, 27,500.

In addition, he pointed out that, as in previous months, the increase in the number of affiliates came from those with an indefinite contract, while affiliates with a temporary contract fell again. In this way, the rate of temporary affiliation fell from 22.5% in April to 20.7% in May (27.6% in December 2021).

As for registered unemployment, in May it fell below three million unemployed for the first time since 2008. The number of registered unemployed fell by 99,512 (22,500 in seasonally adjusted terms), to 2,922,991.

Among the modalities of indefinite hiring, the one that grew the most last month was that of discontinuous permanent contracts (10.8%). The number of contracts covered by this modality has multiplied by 13 in the last year.