The Basque Country registers 8,664 permanent contracts in the first month of 2022

The Basque Autonomous Community has registered 8,664 permanent contracts in the first month of 2022. Of the total contracts signed last month, 8,664 were permanent, 1,862 more than the previous month (27.37%) and 3,391 more than in January 2021 (+ 64.31%).

On the other hand, the number of unemployed registered in the offices of public employment services in the Basque Country has increased by 1099 people last January in relation to December (+0.96%), with which it is located in 115,944 unemployed. This figure represents, however, 14,786 fewer unemployed than in January 2021 (-11.31%), according to data from the Department of Labor and Employment of the Basque Government and the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy.

Unemployment has increased in the first month of 2021 in monthly terms among women, with 1,494 more unemployed, while it has decreased among men, with 395 fewer unemployed. In the interannual variation, the decrease in unemployment occurred both among men (-7,582) and among women (-7,204).

By province, unemployment has grown in Alava 0.63%, with 122 unemployed people more than in December, and stands at 19,536 unemployed. In Gipuzkoa the increase is 1.01%, with 310 more unemployed people and a total of 30,863 unemployed people. Biscay has registered a rise of 1.03% (667 more unemployed) and a number of unemployed of 65,545.

Compared to last year, unemployment has decreased in the Alava territory by 11.90%, in Gipuzkoa by 11.76% and in Biscay the decrease has been 10.92%.

In the monthly evolution, the Basque Country has registered a growth in unemployment four tenths above the state average, of 0.55%, while the interannual decrease is ten points less than the national average, of 21.22%, and the most low in percentage terms of the set of communities.

Unemployment in the Basque Country continues to affect women more, with 65,108 (1,494 more than in December) unemployed than men with 50,836 (396 less than the previous month).

By age, unemployment among those under 25 years of age experienced a rise of 292 unemployed, up to 9,190.

As reported by the Basque government In a note, the increase in unemployment “is always bad news, because we are talking about people who are looking for a job and can’t find it. And today there are more people unemployed than a month ago.”

However, they point out that it is something that happens historically. In this sense, they have explained that, in January, “the contracts made to meet the increased demand at Christmas will end”. In fact, this increase occurs in the services sector, while in industry and construction unemployment decreases.

“This occurs in the three territories. Consequently, the most affected are women, the majority of the new unemployed,” they point out, insisting that this increase is directly related to temporary contracts.

Despite this bad data, “today, there are fewer people unemployed than before the outbreak of the pandemic and less than a year ago. But we need a labor framework that reduces temporary and precarious contracts and that contemplates dismissal as last option,” they say.

Navarra registers 2,764 permanent contracts, 32.76% more

Registered unemployment has risen Navarre in the month of January in 791 people2.47%, until reaching the 32,817.

These data imply that in year-on-year terms unemployment has fallen in the Comunidad Foral compared to January 2021 by 8,908 people, 21.35%.

By sectors of activity, unemployment rose in January in agriculture (11), industry (73) and services (749), and fell in construction (41) and in the group without previous employment (1).

By sex, 13,446 unemployed are men and 19,371 are women, 3,007 of all of them under 25 years of age and 29,810 over this age.

Data from the Ministry also indicate that in January contracts signed in Navarra grew by 3.26%29,777 in total, 940 more than the previous month and 5,506 more than in January 2021, which implies an increase in one year of 22.69%.

Of the 29,777 signed, 2,764 were indefinite contracts32.76% more than in December and 75.83% more than a year ago, of which 1,075 were conversions and 5 were people with disabilities.