Balearic Islands and Canary Islands led the increases in permanent contracts in the first two months of the year, in which this type of labor agreement doubled after the entry into force of the labor reform with measures to improve job stability.
According to the statistics data published by the State Public Employment Service (SEPE), between January and February of this year 555,513 permanent contracts were signed, 374,661 initial fixed contracts and 180,852 converted from other modalities, which means doubling the figures for the same period of 2021. These are the highest figures in the history of the Spanish labor market, according to Joaquín Pérez Rey, Secretary of State for Employment, in a press conference.
Specifically, the Balearic Islands was the autonomous community with the most contracts of this type in the first two months of the year, since it managed to quadruple the figures, going from 3,052 last year to 11,972 in 2022, which represents an increase of 292%.
The Canary archipelago occupied second place with 266% more permanent contracts, with 4,254 signed between January and February 2021, to 15,559 this year, and first in the data of conversions from temporary to permanent contracts, doubling the figures from the previous year.
Also, the agriculture sector has been the most benefited, with 31,076 permanent agreements, 150% more than the previous year. Regarding groups, 22.2% of the agreements signed by women have been permanent, with an increase of 80% compared to 2021, and one in five contracts have been signed by people under 25 years of age.
The labor reform came into force on March 31 with the aim of ending the temporality of the labor market, so now temporary contracts may be made exclusively out of necessity in production for a specific period of time or to replace another worker with a job reservation