Redundancies due to ERO in Catalonia in the first half of the year have grown by 59% in an environment of job creation and unemployment reduction. The data for the period January-June show that a total of 3,399 people lost their jobs in a process of collective dismissal compared to 2,140 in the same period of 2022.
The figure for the first six months of 2023 is higher than that recorded in the years 2017 and 2018 as a whole. And it looks like it will surpass that of last financial year, which affected 5,205 employees.
The first part of the year was highlighted by the collective employment adjustments of technologies such as Glovo, Wallbox and that of GI Group in 2016. Precisely, the sector that has been most affected by layoffs is the "technology service information", in which 633 jobs have been destroyed. It is followed by "storage and transport", with more than 400.
The poor evolution of collective termination processes contrasts with that of ERTEs (temporary employment regulation files), which decreased in the first semester in year-on-year terms. It went from more than 33,000 to nearly 19,000 at the end of supply chain tensions.
The layoffs figures for the first semester obviously do not include those of Facebook's subcontractor, Telus, which on Thursday presented an ERO of 334 to the Barcelona workforce. A Telus spokesperson explained that "given our large and varied customer base, it is our practice to offer affected team members a flexible transition to other business areas where possible."
