Madrid (EFE) of the disability considers that it has supposed an advance for the inclusion.
Compared to 2019 -the year before the pandemic that caused widespread job destruction-, 30,771 affiliates have joined, representing an increase of 10.8% in three years, according to data collected by the public employment service (SEPE) in its latest report on the labor market for people with disabilities.
The increase in the affiliation of people with disabilities to Social Security in 2022 was greater than that registered in 2021 (4.58%), the year of recovery of employment after the pandemic, and has been 2.8 percentage points higher than the average national of 2022 (3.9%).
However, the gender gap is greater in this group, since close to 60% of members with disabilities are men, compared to 40% women, while in general membership 52.86% are men and 47. 14% women.
Increase recruitment and stability
Although people with disabilities continue to have a low participation in the labor market, the secretary of the Labor Inclusion Commission of the Committee of Representatives of People with Disabilities (Cermi), Josefa Torres, considers that the labor reform has served to improve the hiring of the collective and job stability, as highlighted this week in a forum organized by the ONCE Foundation, Cepyme and Garrigues.
The number of contracts for people with disabilities increased by 2.29% in 2022, with 7,063 more than the previous year, up to a total of 314,948 contracts.
The Cermi points out that the labor reform has helped to increase the modalities of permanent contracts almost triple (177.51%), while the signing of temporary contracts has fallen by 20.54%.
“It can be affirmed that employment behavior is more stable in the group with disabilities”, has been one of the conclusions of the SEPE report.
However, for the executive vice president of Fundación ONCE, Alberto Durán, it is also positive that temporary contracts are an option for inclusion in the labor market, which does not mean that he “advocates temporary employment.”
Unemployment falls less
Faced with the acceleration of affiliation to Social Security, the number of unemployed people with disabilities fell to a lesser extent in 2022, 2.72%, compared to the decrease of 12.55% in 2021.
At the end of 2022, the number of unemployed jobseekers with disabilities was 140,984 people, 3,947 less than a year earlier.
According to the latest data available from the National Institute of Statistics (INE), the unemployment rate for people with disabilities stood at 22.5% in 2021, compared to an employment rate of 26.9%, which reflects ” the difficulties of insertion of the group in the labor market, although in the last eight years it has been improving ”, as explained by the SEPE in its report.