Madrid, Apr 27 (EFE) attributed to the government’s labor reform, while the employers’ association CEIM relates them to Madrid’s fiscal policy.
This is a drop of 3.9 percent compared to the last quarter of 2022, so the unemployment rate in the Community of Madrid stood at 11.01 percent at the end of March, two points below the national average (13.26%), according to data from the Active Population Survey (EPA) released this Thursday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
In a press conference called this Thursday by the CCOO and UGT to present the workers’ demands for May Day in the Community of Madrid, the general secretary of the CCOO Madrid, Paloma López, recognized them as “good, without any doubt” the data from the EPA and has attributed it to the labor reform.
“We are seeing how, over time, this labor reform yields positive results in terms of growth and employment, and in the reduction of temporary employment or the increase in permanent contracts,” said López.
And he added that “now that employment is going well, what it takes is that employment be of quality, with rights and with decent wages increased based on the CPI
On behalf of UGT Madrid, its general secretary, Marina Prieto, has also said that these are “good data in a quarter that is not usually easy”, although she has stressed that the data on employment of young people or the rate are not good. of female employment.
The UGT regional leader has also said that the data on permanent contracts and the reduction in temporary employment are marked “by this labor reform promoted by the unions.”
Regarding Madrid businessmen, the CEIM employers’ association has also celebrated these data but has attributed them to the fiscal policy promoted by the Madrid Government, in their opinion “more in line with the need to encourage economic dynamism”.
He has compared the data for Madrid’s autonomy with those of Spain as a whole and has stressed that while the number of employed persons increases in Madrid, at the national level it decreases, and that the drop in unemployment in one year in the region is 6.31 percent, five times higher than the decrease registered in the national data.
He has lamented the unemployment data in Spain as a whole, which is growing four tenths “and doubles the European average”, as well as the activity rate and points to the “electoralist deployment of subsidies” which in his opinion may be contributing to this situation is produced.
For his part, the socialist candidate for Puerta del Sol, Juan Lobato, has pointed out that the unemployment data, as long as they are positive, are “good and good news”, for which reason he has celebrated the growth in employment in Madrid for an informative breakfast organized by Europa Press.