Social Security closed the year 2020 in the Canary Islands with an average decrease of 45,743 members, which represents the largest percentage drop in Spain with a decrease of 5.53%, the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration reported this Tuesday.
Thus, the 'year of the pandemic' ended in the islands with 781,685 average members, although with 918 more contributors than in November (+0.12%).
By provinces, Las Palmas ended 2020 with 25,820 fewer members (-5.91%) and Santa Cruz de Tenerife with 19,915 fewer (-5.11%), while compared to November there were 866 (+0.2%) and 52 (0.01%) more people, respectively.
Regarding ERTE, the Canary Islands continues to lead the autonomous communities with the most workers in this situation, with 79,206 people, of which 40,626 are men and 38,580 are women.
In Spain, the 755,613 workers in ERTE with which 2020 ended represent 5.2% of the members of the General Regime, although geographically, there is a significant concentration of them.
Thus, the two Canary Islands provinces are the ones with the highest percentage of members under some form of ERTE.
The province of Las Palmas closed the year 2020 with 45,100 people in temporary suspension of employment, 13% of its members, while Santa Cruz de Tenerife was the second, with 34,106 people, 11% of the total of its members. 07 people in ERTE. On average, according to the series by date of registration, in the month of December there have been 782,915 people in ERTE, compared to 865,677 in the revised series of the previous month and 676,905 in the month of October.
