Employment has increased by 9% in the last year in Lanzarote, so the Social Security has added 4,922 more contributors on the island. There are already 59,348 members, according to a report by the Lanzarote Business Confederation (CEL) published within the 'Employability Lanzarote' project.
These data are better than the 6.5% increase recorded throughout the Canary Islands in the last twelve months, which represents 2.5% less than the island of Lanzarote.
The president of the CEL, Francisco Martínez, values the increase in affiliations and, in general, the good figures in terms of employment on the island. "We are satisfied because the affiliation levels that existed in February 2020 have already been exceeded, just before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic," he points out.
"This positive evolution has been favored by the different measures designed by public and private entities, and in the case of Lanzarote, by projects such as 'Employability Lanzarote 21/22', which has allowed subsidizing the hiring of 51 unemployed people on the Island", emphasizes the president. In that sense, Martínez concludes that "the actions executed by the Business Confederation, through the 'Employability Lanzarote' project, financed by the Employment Council of the Island Council with FDCAN funds, have collaborated in this positive evolution".
Regarding other figures provided by the report, the increase of 10.41% of affiliations in the General Regime (salaried employees) stands out, compared to the slight increase in the Self-Employed Workers Regime, that is, self-employed, which increase by 3.56%. In contrast, there are the affiliations to the Household Employees Regime, which decrease by 3.11%.
The figures for the decrease in unemployment have also evolved positively and, again, better at the island level than in the Archipelago as a whole. The 9,607 unemployed people registered in September 2022 contrast with the 12,903 that existed in the same month of 2021, so there are 3,296 fewer people in this situation, which is equivalent to a decrease in unemployment of 25.54%, compared to 11.66% of the regional average.
