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Spanish exports from agri-food and fisheries sector rose by 2.7% from April to December 2020

Wednesday 3 March 2021

Spanish exports from the agri-food, fisheries and forestry sector amounted to 41 billion euros in the period from April to December 2020, compared with 39.91 billion euros in the same period of 2019, a rise of 2.7 %.

Recorded unemployment rises by 44,436 in February due to strong impact of third wave of pandemic

Tuesday 2 March 2021

Recorded unemployment fell in the construction sector, remained practically stable in industry and increased, above all, in the services sector - the most sensitive to the restrictions on activity in the third wave of the pandemic.

February closes with 900,000 people on Temporary Lay-off Plan

Tuesday 2 March 2021

71% of them are under modalities that include exemptions from National Insurance contributions. One in four people on a Temporary Lay-off Plan (Spanish acronym: ERTE) at the close of February was on a part-time suspension. This is a 75% drop on the peak in April 2020. Out of the 100 registered activities, five cover more than half of the people on an ERTE.

In seasonally-adjusted terms, social security system records 19,074,871 contributors in February

Tuesday 2 March 2021

In seasonally-adjusted terms, the average number of national insurance contributors in February stood at 19,074,871, down 30,211 on the previous month. Since May 2020, the time of the greatest impact of the pandemic on the job market, 713,461 contributors have been recovered, in other words, 64% of the jobs shed between February and May.

Yolanda Díaz and Belgian Deputy Prime Minister back a working group to promote the draft European Minimum Wage Directive

Monday 1 March 2021

The Minister for Work and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, conveyed to Pierre-Yves Demargne that the Government of Spain will work constructively so that the European Council and the Parliament approve a directive to this end as soon as possible.