The number of workers affected by a collective dismissal decreased by 33.2% in February compared to the same month of the previous year, reaching 2,008 affected individuals, according to provisional data from the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy collected by Europa Press.
By autonomous communities, Galicia concentrated the highest number of workers affected by an ERE in absolute terms, with 5,319. It was followed by the Valencian Community, with 2,679, and the Basque Country, with 1,030 workers. In February, the Canary Islands saw the highest increase in the number of affected workers in relative terms, with the number of affected individuals almost multiplying by 13, reaching 721 workers.
On the national level, 10,929 workers were involved in a contract suspension, a 26.8% decrease compared to February 2024, while those affected by a reduction in working hours increased by 9%, totaling 714 workers.
Consequently, the total number of workers affected by an Employment Regulation File (ERE) in February decreased by 26.6% year-on-year, to 13,651 affected individuals.
Out of the total workers in an ERE in February 2025, 11.67% (1,593 workers) were affected by a procedure caused by force majeure, while 88.33% (12,058 workers) were affected by procedures related to economic, technical, organizational, and production reasons (ETOP). The former increased by 56.9%, while those caused by ETOP reasons decreased by 31.4%.
The Ministry notes that when a procedure affects multiple workplaces in different provinces, each province is counted separately in the statistics. Additionally, if a company reports affected workers in different months, a procedure is counted for each month.
Furthermore, the Ministry of Labor’s statistics show that out of the total companies affected in February, 104 were due to the DANA in Valencia, and out of the total workers, 629 were due to the flood – 606 contract suspensions and 23 reductions in working hours – all of them due to force majeure.
### EREs Decline in All Sectors
The number of workers affected by an ERE in February decreased across all sectors, particularly in agriculture (-82.5%), where there were 48 affected individuals.
In the construction sector, there was a 29.3% decrease, with 171 affected individuals, while in industry, there was a 31.6% decrease, totaling 8,637 workers, and in services, the total number of affected individuals decreased to 4,795 employees (-12%).
### Collective Dismissals Only Increase in Construction
By type of procedure, the number of individuals affected by collective dismissals only increased in construction (+100%), reaching 122 affected individuals. However, they decreased in agriculture (-94.3%), industry (-64.6%), and services (-16.7%), totaling 6, 358, and 1,522 affected individuals, respectively.
Those affected by contract suspensions decreased in all sectors: agriculture (-75.6%), industry (-30.3%), construction (-74.7%), services (-10.7%).
On the other hand, those affected by reduction of working hours remained the same in agriculture (1 affected individual), increased in industry (+12.3%), services (+5.7%), and decreased in construction (-45.5%).
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