MADRID, 3 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Minister for Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, José Luis Escrivá, highlighted this Tuesday that the affiliation data for 2022 show that it has been a "very positive" year for employment "despite the complicated international situation".

In his twitter account, the minister stressed that 2022 closed with 20.3 million affiliates after growing by more than 471,000 contributors in the year as a whole and by more than 815,000 since the system recovered the pre-pandemic level, in August of 2021.

For Escrivá, "2022 has been a year of all-time highs", with a record number of affiliated women (9.5 million), record annual average affiliation (20.1 million, 750,000 more affiliates than in 2021), record in more than a decade of growth in employment (3.9%) and a record in the last ten years for the contributor/pensioner ratio.

At the same time, the minister stressed that the labor reform, of which its first anniversary has just been completed, "has given a strong boost to the quality of employment", since there are 2.3 million more permanent workers than a year ago and three out of four young people now have a stable job, 30 points more than before the labor reform.

In addition, the minister has stressed that the average duration of contracts has increased by 25%, that short-term contracts have been reduced by 3.3 million and that temporary employment regulation (ERTE) files "remain at minimum levels ".