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The mayor of Local Development and spokesperson for the Government team, Isabel Casalduero, recalls that "from the Consistory we work on measures that allow our businessmen and the self-employed to recover their activity as soon as possible after being affected by the closure of their businesses." The councilor for Employment and Local Development of the City of Lorca, Isabel Casalduero, has valued, this morning, unemployment data in the municipality of Lorca for the month of May that have been published by the Regional Service of Employment and Training (SEF) . The Councilor for Employment has detailed that "the month of May closed in our municipality with a total of 5,612 unemployed, 341 more than the previous month, which ended with 5,271 people registered in the office that the Regional Service of Employment and Training (SEF ) has in Lorca ". Isabel Casalduero explained that "for the third consecutive month there is an increase in unemployment in our municipality, within the general trend of the entire country as a direct consequence of the coronavirus crisis and due to the closure of companies in almost all sectors by the state alarm.
" Casalduero has detailed that "unemployment has risen in almost all sectors, the most pronounced being that registered in the Services sector, in which 186 people have lost their jobs in the last month, registering a total unemployment in this sector of 3,763 people; followed by Agriculture, where it has increased by 164 unemployed, to 744 unemployed; Industry, in which eight people joined the unemployment lists in May, totaling 403; followed by the group without previous activity that added seven more unemployed during the last month up to 352, on the other hand, construction has been the only sector that has experienced a small decrease in unemployment, since 24 people found a job in this sector in May, bringing the total to 350 unemployed.
" By age, the mayor of Local Development has reported that "this increase in unemployment has been noticed in workers of all ages, but it has been more important, as it did in April, in the group of 25 to 44 years, in which a total of 205 people lost their job during the month of May, followed by those over 45, where 98 have done so, and finally those under 25, in which it has been registered an increase of 38 unemployed. The councilor has recognized that "as in the previous months, the health crisis as a result of the coronavirus is affecting the entire society, but it is doing so considerably in the labor market due to the closure of many shops and establishments, although with the entry into the different phases of de-escalation in recent weeks many of these businesses have been able to reopen, so we hope to see an improvement in unemployment data in the coming weeks.
" Casalduero recalled "the start-up from the consistory of the two lines of subsidies for the self-employed and micro-businesses that were affected by the health crisis and that will allow our entrepreneurs and self-employed to recover their activity as soon as possible, also helping the inhabitants of Lorca and lorquinas to minimize to the maximum the economic consequences of the health crisis with the flexibility of the fiscal calendar ". The mayor has insisted that "to fight unemployment, we have proposed a Special Plan for Local Public Employment for the coming months to alleviate the serious unemployment situation especially for the most affected sectors, such as commerce, hospitality and industry, so we will work in collaboration with the different administrations since the solution will depend on everyone with fiscal measures and the promotion of contracting, among others.
" Nationally, the mayor of Employment has highlighted that "the labor market has noticed a slight improvement with an increase of 190,000 more affiliates to Social Security during the past month, during which all types of contracts also grew in all regimes, once again highlighting the agrarian sector Casalduero has referred to the analysis of the employment situation at the national level, the recovery of which is being registered practically homogeneously by age, although it is benefiting more men than women. Isabel Casalduero has also referred to the reactivation of part of the workers who are currently in ERTE and that can be observed throughout the territory, although with different intensity, being notable in the Region of Murcia where this reactivation exceeds 25 percent . More than 400 complete files Lastly, the Councilor for Employment and Local Development stressed that "since last Monday, more than 400 complete files have been processed in the Office set up in the Local Development Center to apply for subsidies for self-employed and micro-businesses affected by the crisis sanitary ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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