The Canary Islands has a labor absenteeism rate of 6%, the third lowest in Spain, after a drop of 1.39 percentage points in the last quarter, the most pronounced drop of all the autonomous communities, and is below the Spanish average, which is 7%.
According to a study by the Adecco Institute based on the INE's Quarterly Labor Cost Survey, the data from the Canary Islands contrasts with the national behavior, where the absenteeism rate for the third quarter has increased by 0.3 percentage points compared to the second quarter of 2023 and 0.3 percentage points compared to the same period of the previous year.
The results of this study contrast with the concern shown this summer by the Canary Islands Confederation of Employers (CCE) of Las Palmas, which highlighted the increase in absenteeism by 50% in the archipelago in 2022.
Regarding absenteeism due to temporary disability, the most frequent, this is 4.7%, which has decreased by 9 tenths in the last quarter and grown by 7 compared to 2022.
If the absenteeism rate of the Canary Islands is broken down by sectors, for services it is 6.3% (+0.8 pp year-on-year) and is placed as the Canary sector with the highest rate, but the fourth lowest of the autonomous region as a whole for services.
In industry, the Canary Islands absenteeism index remains at 5.5% (+1 pp, the one that grows the most in the region in the last year) and in construction its mark is at 4.3% (+0.6 pp), both are the second lowest absenteeism rates for these two sectors among the entire autonomous region.
In the rest of the autonomous communities, the Basque Country once again has the highest absenteeism rate in the country, 9.7% (-0.1 pp year-on-year), and after it are Navarra (-0.2 pp) and Catalonia (+0.7 pp year-on-year), both with 7.9%.
The lowest absenteeism rates are in the Balearic Islands, with 4.3% (+0.4 pp year-on-year) and Castilla-La Mancha, with 5.9% (-0.4 pp).
