MADRID, 9 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The summer campaign, the first after the entry into force of the labor reform, will generate 499,380 contracts in Spain, 2.2% less than in 2021 and a figure 19.7% lower than that registered before the pandemic, according to the Randstad forecasts, which attributes this lower number of contracts to the new formulas and the dynamics of permanent contracts introduced by the labor reform.
“The situation generated by the labor reform allows the same need to be covered with another format, so that longer-term contracts are given than in previous years. In fact, it may occur that in certain activities and sectors the fixed discontinuous, which makes it possible to respond to temporary needs”, explained the director of Randstad Research, Valentín Bote.
To prepare its forecasts, Randstad has taken into account the sectors of commerce, transport, tourism, hospitality and entertainment, which are the ones that traditionally drive employment in the summer period.
Since 2012, the volume of contracts made in the summer began an upward trend, reaching a maximum in 2019, with 621,736 contracts. The arrival of Covid caused this indicator to plummet by more than 41% in 2020, to a total of 363,243 contracts.
After improving sanitary conditions and lifting restrictions, summer contracts once again exceeded half a million in 2021, with 510,776 contracts.
Canarias, with an increase of 13%, will be the autonomous community where hiring will increase the most in the summer campaign compared to 2021, followed by La Rioja (4.7%); Extremadura (3.4%); Galicia and Asturias (both with an advance of 1%); Castilla y León (0.3%) and the Basque Country (0.2%).
By contrast, ten communities will register a lower number of contracts than in the summer of 2021. The biggest drops will be for the Balearic Islands (-9.5%), Castilla-La Mancha (-9.1%) and the Valencian Community (-7, 8%), followed by Cantabria (-4.3%), Navarra (-3.6%), Murcia (-3.2%), Aragón (-2.9%), Andalusia (-2.4%) , Madrid (-1.7%) and Catalonia (-1.6%).
In absolute values, the regions that will sign the most contracts this summer will be Andalusia (103,250), Catalonia (71,360), the Valencian Community (56,200) and Madrid (52,990).
