Social Security anticipates that it will be "relatively easy" to drop to 15% temporary in not long

MADRID, 26 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Secretary of State for Social Security and Pensions, Israel Arroyo, highlighted this Thursday that the Spanish temporary employment rate has dropped seven points, to currently stand at 22%, in the five months that the labor reform has been in force, and He has ventured that, at this rate, it will be "relatively easy" to lower it to 15% of the European average "in a short time."

During his appearance in the Labor, Inclusion, Social Security and Migration Commission in the Senate, Arroyo stated that the labor reform is having "spectacular results", with a very strong growth in permanent contracts.

The Secretary of State explained that "not only temporary contracts are being replaced by indefinite ones", but also new permanent employment is being created. "This is something that is surprising us because of the positive and because of how fast it is," he said.

In fact, in five months, the Spanish temporary employment rate has halved its distance from the European average, because if before it was separated by 14 points from the EU average, now the gap is only seven points.

Arroyo has indicated that the labor reform is especially benefiting young people, who have been "the great victims of temporality" in Spain and who "disappeared" from the labor market in the first months of the health crisis.

"The temporary rate among those under 30 years of age, which used to be a scary movie, 61%, is now 41%. Although it scares me anyway, we have dropped 20 points," Arroyo stressed.

In his opinion, the proof that the labor reform works and that it had nothing to do with the Spanish economic model, but with a "bad design of contracts", is that temporary employment is falling across the board in all productive sectors .

Arroyo has also emphasized the reduction experienced by the "extremely high" rotation of temporary contracts thanks to the penalty introduced by the labor reform.

Whereas before half a million one-day contracts were signed per month, this type of contract has been reduced by 600,000, while contracts of 30 days or more have increased.