Spanish Government Plans to Create 20,000 Public Sector Jobs Across Next Two Years

Spanish Government Plans to Create 20,000 Public Sector Jobs Across Next Two Years 

creating more jobs can only be good for everyone 

The Spanish government has pledged to create 20,000 additional public sector jobs leading up to 2019. The move is part of an effort to provide the official authorities and services of the country with more support. 

The El Mundo newspaper is reporting that 7,000 of these jobs will be for general state administrations, along with another 3,360 positions opening for the judiciary.

4,000 jobs will go to the Spanish civil service, social security, and tax authority institutions as Madrid is looking to boost the ability of the government in key areas. 

It’s expected that many of these prospective roles will be announced – and potentially filled – by the end of the year. If this is the case, it would be one of the most powerful recruitment drives ever by a Spanish government. The vice president of CSI-F – the majority union in the Central State Administration – spoke to El Pais; saying that the plan looks to ensure the viability of the administration which has seen young staff decimated in the past six years. 

The official data shows that only 1,388 of the 190,858 public sector workers in Spain are under 30 years old. This statistic shows not only how public sector roles have been the domain of the old and connected Spaniard, but also the need for a fresh young mindset and new ideas. 

This doesn’t help that absolutely zero public sector roles have been created in the country since 2010. Spain has been dealing with austerity since 2010, but the current economy is holding strong and prospects are good, giving the government the freedom to bolster the public sector while they can.

Spanish Unemployment Drops at Highest Rate in 20 Years

Spanish Unemployment Drops at Highest Rate in 20 Years

Even though two-thirds of the jobs that were created in June were temporary positions, more and more open-ended jobs are being created.

Spanish unemployment is slowly turning a corner

Spain always sees a boom in jobs during the summer and this boom was bigger than ever with data showing the country welcomed 84,000 new employees to social security in June; representing the biggest single fall in unemployment the country has seen since 1997.

The Employment Ministry confirmed that 83,993 people registered with the state employment offices at the beginning of July. The current official unemployment figures now stand at 3.68 million in Spain.

Going on a month-by-month basis July saw 84,721 more people added to the payroll than in June. When you compare it to figures from last year there are 3% more people working this July than last July. Spain currently has 17.8 million people contributing to social security.

Many of these new jobs (around 51,000) were created in the hotel and catering sectors. This is confirmation of the trend that the reason Spain’s economy does so well during summer is because of the long summer tourism season. While many of these jobs are often temporary current trends suggest that many of these “summer jobs” could last longer and some may even become permanent positions.

Spanish daily El País are reporting that 7.6% of the new contracts signed in July, which is about 1.81 million, were open-ended. This means that the positions the contracts are for could last longer than the summer season. This might sound like a small figure but it is representative of a growing confidence in the hospitality sector; a confidence reinforced by the record number of tourists, higher spending per head, and the recovering economies of both Spain and Europe as a whole.

Marcel Jensen, an economy professor with the Autónoma University of Madrid said that the figures show how strongly the Spanish economy is doing right now and the cost of living in Spain is being kept low. More people are being employed each quarter. Marcel did warn that reforms would be needed to maintain this success in the long term though.

Such reforms, which have been introduced in the past few years to liberalise the employment sector of Spain, appear to have done a good job of boosting employment. Even so analysts and financial experts believe that the growth Spain has seen for the past two years will slow down within the next two years.

Spanish Holidays up 27% 2016

The Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) has released figures showing that there has been a 27% in the number of British booking summer holidays in Spain. Many British tourist are turning their backs on the long haul flight and settling in southern Spain and Costa del Sol .

Costa del Sol

The Foreign Office has warned against travelling to places like Egypt and Tunisia and Turkey has become less desirable due to how close it is to the Syrian crisis. So now British tourists are deciding to play it safe and look a little closer to home for their fun in the sun.

The result is that old traditional favourites such as Spain, Cyprus, Portugal and Malta are seeing increases in bookings. Cities in Spain are ahead of the curve of course with the amount of people booking holidays already having the potential to break records.

The ABTA also revealed that the number of people choosing to travel to Turkey has gone down by a whopping 50%.

Travel Supermarket also released data showing that Spain is the most searched destination for people in Britain. People from other Northern European countries looking for some sun are turning away from places like Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia. Greece is also becoming steadily less popular and now the Western Mediterranean is seeing a rise in popularity with flights through Spanish airports expected to be at all-time highs.

Tour and flight operators like Thomas Cook have decided to scale back the amount of flights and package deals they have available for the troubled regions. They will now focus these efforts on places people are enjoying the sun and with so many attraction in Southern Spain to choose from like beach holidays with abundance of water sports in Spain, with some much on offer should, hopefully, bring the price of a trip to Spain down.

The Costa del Sol has over 800 kilometres of amazing coast line and some of the nicest beaches in Spain. with an average temperature of over 20C year round, its no wonder why so many tourist flock to Southern Spain and the Costa del Sol.