Latest Canarian unemployment figures

[Guanche]

I suspect these figures have been greatly manipulated. They do not take into account those who can't be bothered signing on because they get nothing anyway, so whats the point. A number of people who have reached the age of 61 and are now classed as OAP's. And people who have just been left of the list to improve the outlook. I wouldn't trust these numbers as far as I could throw them.

I know I am Mr Doom and gloom, but my cynicism comes from personal contact with a great many family and friends. Their stories paint a different picture.

Just to add the two family members in Barcelona who have just been made redundant, my son and a nephew, are now seeking work outside Spain. My son is in Berlin as I type in a first round of interviews with a German bank and the nephew is looking to go to Holland. He has worked there before. Another nephew, an accountant, has just decided to go self employed here on the island as he's given up trying to find employment.

[El Profesor]

. . . . . . . I wouldn't trust these numbers as far as I could throw them.

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General election on the horizon . + . cynical manipulative parasitic bastards running the show . = . Pelinor probably right.

[Janet]

There was a bit of good news about unemployment with the publication today of the figures for the first month of 2015 by the Ministerio de Empleo y Seguridad Social. The numbers out of work in the Canaries in January fell by 939, some 0.36% compared  with December 2014, and in interannual terms, the drop compared with January last year is 16,291, a fall of 5.9%. The figures show that there are 259,743 people out of work throughout the islands, 137,837 in the eastern province of Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, and 121,906 in the west, comprising Tenerife, La Gomera, La Palma and El Hierro. The Canaries is one of just three autonomous communities in Spain where unemployment fell: Extremadura saw a drop of 1,113 out of work, the Canaries with 939, and the Balearic Islands with 494. JA

[Janet]

February's unemployment figures for the Canaries from the Ministerio de Empleo y Seguridad Social show a drop of 1,056, or 0.41% compared with January. In interannual terms, they reflect a fall of 16,864, or 6.12%, compared with February 2014, in the numbers out of work, There are now 258,687 registered unemployed in the islands, of whom 134,371, or 51.7%, receive no welfare assistance of any sort. JA

[Janet]

The numbers of unemployed in the Canaries fell by 1,836 at the end of March, down 0.71%, leaving 256,851 registered out of work in the islands, according to figures released by the Ministerio de Empleo y Seguridad Social. In interannual terms, there is a fall of 20,647 compared with March 2014, down 7.44%. The longer-term unemployed have not benefited, however, with 51.3% remaining out of work and without any welfare benefit. Nationally, unemployment fell by 60,214 in March to a total of 4,451,939, a drop representing the best March since 2002. JA

[Guanche]

It's been a while since I've updated this thread about unemployment in the family. Sad to say it's still not good. Out of the three who are not retired non of them are now employed. Two are on Auda and one, recently made redundant is on the dole. Out of their children, ten in all, only two are in full employment. Three are on the dole, including my son the rest are receiving nothing.

The main reason for my update is due to a visit I made to one of my BIL yesterday. He is now being forced to sell his tools and sell his garage space. He asked the wife (who has control of the MIL bank account and finances) if she would ask their mother for €100 loan to fix his son's laptop (needed for collage so not a luxury)  To ashamed to ask himself. I received a quick kick on the shin from the wife as I was about to give him the €100, pride.
It also emerged that my SIL and his wife were cleaning a restaurant in Santa Cruz. They were there yesterday for 5 hours and received....... €20 each! I could cry for them.

One of the wife's cousins was made redundant from her cleaning job of 14 years because she had her hand in plaster after an accident and couldn't work. She received €700 in redundancy payments, well below what she should receive. But as a sign of the times the lawyer who she consulted told her to snatch their hand off!!!

But don't worry things are getting better!!!.......................... and if you believe that

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

I am very sorry this is going on in your family Pelinor.  They deserve better and I hope it comes their way.