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Labour Market Loses 271,000 Jobs in Worst January in 14 Years

Summary by La Vanguardia
In an economy as seasonal as the Spanish one, January is always bad in terms of employment and this year it has been especially bad. The end of the Christmas campaign has been joined with bad weather, which has caused the loss of 270,782 members, the biggest fall for fourteen years. We have to go back to 2012 to record a higher decrease in the number of members and it was not much higher. As far as unemployment is concerned, the month ends with …

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In an economy as seasonal as the Spanish one, January is always bad in terms of employment and this year it has been especially bad. The end of the Christmas campaign has been joined with bad weather, which has caused the loss of 270,782 members, the biggest fall for fourteen years. We have to go back to 2012 to record a higher decrease in the number of members and it was not much higher. As far as unemployment is concerned, the month ends with …

·Granada, Spain
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The Special System of Self-employed Workers (RETA) lost 19,022 contributors in January, a decline higher than that recorded in the same month last year and the worst figure for this period for 14 years in 2012. In parallel, Social Security has found a loss of 270,782 jobs, which is equivalent to the loss of 8,735 jobs per day, according to data published by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration. The National Federation of Asso…

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The unemployment recorded in the offices of the public employment services has started the year with an increase of 30,392 people in January, which represents a growth of 1.2%, taking as a reference the data of the previous month. One of the reasons that explains the rise is the service sector, which has concentrated a considerable bulk of the increase in unemployment this month by the end of the Christmas campaign. The rise that unemployment ha…

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Unemployment rises at this start of the year, but it adds 160,381 more jobs when compared to the same month of 2025.Main Topics: UnemploymentRead full article

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La Vanguardia broke the news in Granada, Spain on Tuesday, February 3, 2026.
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