Paulo Novais / Lusa
More than half of workers because of others do not reach the salary of 1000 euros. 620 thousand people in training actions.
It is an updated portrait of the economy, and part of society in Portugal: this Tuesday was released the report on employment and vocational training, from the Center for Laboral Relations (CRL).
The data are 2023: more than half of workers due to others in Portugal (59.9%), in full time, rEcebia between 760 euros and 999.99 euros.
It is still a high number but it is a reduction of 3.8 percentage points in this “slice”, compared to the figures of the previous year, highlights the.
One third of workers due to others (33.8%) received between 1000 and 2499.99 euros, while 5.3% are in the next range (up to 499.99 euros) and 1% got over 5000 euros a month.
The highest salaries are in the sectors of electricity, gas, steam, hot and cold water and cold air, and international organisms and other extraterritorial institutions and information and communication activities. They have base salaries above 2500 euros.
O type of contract From work makes a difference: For contractless contracts, the average salary was 1306.02 euros; For those who have a contract with a certain term the salary goes down to 980.20 euros; Contractors with uncertain term have an average of 992.66 euros per month.
Jumping to 2024, and on the unemployment: 351.1 thousand people had no job in Portugal last year. It is an almost equal number than the previous year. 41.3% of the total was unemployed for at least one year.
In December last year, 7,012.3 thousand were registered contract work; Almost a third were new contracts.
The job market slowed down in Employment growth Total: 1.3% last year, 1.9% in 2023.
Training
Also in 2024, there was a significant increase in people in training promoted by the Institute of Employment and Vocational Training (IEFP).
These formations came to 620 thousand people over the past year. It is an increase of almost 24%, as the previous year had been 500,000 those involved in formation.
More than half (343,600 people) was covered by continuous training actionsstresses the. 27.8% are in other training measures, such as check-to-form and training, among others.
In 2024, there was 77 mil People covered by employment support measures promoted by IEFP. Most (34.4%) benefited measures of professional insertion; 31.3% were covered by the measure, which integrates unemployed in temporary social or collective needs.
Lay-off, collective discharge
The number of employers in ‘lay-off’ increased 22% in 2024, compared to the same period, to 1,356, according to the same summary
Last year, “1,356 employing entities were in a lay-off situation, which corresponded to an increase of about 22.1% compared to the same period”, points out the document, based on the data provided by Social Security.
By 2023, the number of employers who were in ‘lay-off’ more than doubled, having Increased 169% Facing 2022, to 1,113.
The 2024 data therefore maintain this growth trend, even though the climb was not as expressive as verified in 2023.
The executive summary also reveals that in 2024 “ 497 collective discharges ”, covering “about 5.7 thousand workers failed”, which represents a increase counterpart 59%.
“With regard to the homologous period, in 2024, there was an increase of 15.3% of the number of communicated collective discharges, which corresponded to another 66 discharge,” he adds.
