Madrid (EFE).- In December 2022 there were 443,078 job seekers excluded from registered unemployment because they were discontinuous permanent in a period of inactivity, according to data detailed by the Government in a parliamentary response to two PP senators.
The response, dated February 27 and advanced this Tuesday by “El Mundo”, details that of these job seekers – included in the statistics of the public employment service (SEPE) in the group employed workers – 268,402 were recipients of some benefit due to unemployment and 174,676 did not receive benefits.
The number of permanent discontinuous workers in a period of inactivity, according to the figures from the response to the Senate, starts in January at 246,076, peaks in December and registers the lowest figure in May with 136,113.
The figures that give the monthly photo cannot be compared with other exercises.
The statistics that the SEPE publishes each month details the total number of job seekers and breaks down three categories that have been excluded since 1985 from the registered unemployment figure.
The first is that of employed persons, that is, applicants who, having already a job, are looking for a better one or to make it compatible with the one they already have.
In this group, there were 1.1 million in the data for December 2022 but it was not detailed which of them were discontinuous permanent, a modality that has gained weight this year after the labor reform.
The second category is that of applicants with limited availability, that is, those who, while unemployed, indicate special working conditions in their application, and there were 273,619 in December.
And the third is the unemployed job seekers, the denos, which totaled 198,069 in that month.
Registered unemployment for each month, 2,837,653 in December, does not include any of the above categories.
The statistics are recorded in the same way since 1985, but since the weight of this type of contract has increased, the Ministry of Labor has been asked to detail the data.
From the Ministry of Labor they have indicated that work continues to provide these broken down data in a precise and refined manner.
“They insulted us for saying that the government was making up the unemployment figures. Again it is discovered that we were right. We need a government that cares more about the well-being of its citizens than about looking good in the photo,” the PP Deputy Secretary of Economy, Juan Bravo, criticized on Twitter.