The end of the Christmas season has left a count of 75 people more targeted on the unemployment rolls in Denia, a fact that every January is repeated due in large part to the temporary nature of the jobs in the service sector.
Currently the number of unemployed in Dénia stands at 4.486 people, heading the list of municipalities with the highest unemployment rate in the region. In the global calculation, the Marina Alta The year begins with a total of 14.236 unemployed, 184 people more than in the month of December.
For the union CCOO, "The regional productive market, like that of the province, remains subject to the seasonality of tourism campaigns that, just as they create precarious employment in high season, with the same ease they dismantle it when the season ends. Beyond that it is necessary to break the monoculture of the services sector, it is essential to seasonally adjust it in a way that increases the productivity of the region and create a labor market based on quality employment.
Unemployment data in January in the Marina Alta increased 77'2% in the group of women emerges, while in terms of recruitment, 84'6% of the contracts have been temporary and 47'3% part time.
From CCOO appreciate that "With these figures there are no speeches that soften the situation: there is no more employment; there is more precariousness and more unemployment, so that the crisis does not come out. A productive market based on precarious hiring continues to consolidate, which guarantees us the increase of poverty and inequality in the population. "
