The general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarrahas accused this Friday the Government of Pedro Sanchez to “hide the real” unemployment data through the fixed-discontinuous and has announced that his formation will present an initiative in Congress demanding “transparency.”
That was his response when asked by the unemployment data in novembera month in which the number of unemployed registered in the offices of the public employment services (formerly Inem) fell by 33,512 in relation to the previous month (-1.1%), its second largest setback this month in the historical series after the one experienced in 2021 (-74,381 unemployed).
Gamarra has not mentioned this improvement in November and has focused on denounce that they are “dressing up and hiding the true data of the unemployment”. In fact, he has pointed out that there is information that reflects this “concern” about what is happening and echoes “this denunciation” of “independent organizations and institutions”, which put “on the table how through the figure of the fixed-discontinuous data is being distorted” from unemployment.
The ‘number two’ of Alberto Núñez Feijóo has referred to what the Foundation for Applied Economics Studies (Fedea) maintains, which indicates that at the end of October there were more than 400,000 inactive discontinuous permanent workers that were not counted in registered unemployment and published by the Public State Employment Service (SEPE).
distorted data
Given this fact, the leader of the PP has advanced that her party has presented a non-legal proposal in Congress to have more “transparency”, in such a way that “under the figure of the discontinuous permanent one, many people who do not have a permanent contract are not disguised and hidden.” In your understanding, a fixed-discontinuous contract is a temporary contract.
After emphasizing that these data are currently “absolutely distorted”Gamarra has affirmed that the work of a government “is not to look for tricks to hide a reality but rather to provide transparency to official data so that the Spanish can know the truth” and “ask for measures”.
“No matter how much you change the name of a contract, if the contract is fixed-discontinuous and you only work a few days of the year and they even have several contracts of these characteristics, you do not have a fixed contract“, has emphasized the general secretary of the PP.
In similar terms, the spokesperson for the Popular Group in the Senate, Javier Maroto, who has indicated that “the Ministry is acknowledging that unemployment falls because there are more people active“.
“But many of those active people are collecting unemployment. So, they are not very active, right? It is not making up the figures. is lying“, the ‘popular’ senator has censored in a message on his official Twitter account.
The Ministry is recognizing that unemployment falls because there are more people active. But many of those active people are collecting unemployment. So, they are not very active, right? It is not to make up the figures. It’s lying. Also in this https://t.co/9cxzb2DKoQ
— Javier Maroto (@JavierMaroto) December 2, 2022
Garamendi: “Unemployment is continuing”
The President of CEOE, Antonio Garamendi, for its part, points out that the unemployment data for the month of November is evidence of the trend it has been following in recent months. And though considers that “they are being maintained”Garamendi has called for “prudence”.