In the winter of 2024, the Canary Islands registered the highest rate of lawsuits for dismissal per 100,000 inhabitants in the country, 124.2, which places it 14 points above the second, Madrid, which was 110.2, according to data provided this Monday by the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ).
The national average rate was 84.6, according to data from the CGPJ that the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands has released in a statement, in which it specifies that the dismissal procedures registered in the courts of the islands during the first quarter of 2025 grew by 8.3% compared to the same period of the previous year.
Thus, the dismissal rate in Canary Islands in winter was 46.8% higher than the national average.
Specifically, 2,567 were registered in the winter of 2024 compared to 2,780 in this year, and the increase in the state average for this concept was 3.1%.
The Statistics Service of the General Council of the Judiciary has made public the data on the effect of the crisis on the Spanish judicial bodies during the first quarter of 2025.
In the area of job loss, claims for amounts before the courts increased by 6.9% in the Canary Islands between January and March 2025 in reference to the same period of the previous year, from 2,160 to 2,309.
Regarding employment regulation files (EREs), the islands registered a decrease of 80% from the winter of 2024 to the past and between January and April of 2024 five had been computed while this last winter one was registered.
