Canary Islands tops the number of workers affected by ERE and collective redundancies across Spain in August, according to provisional data from the Ministry of Labour.
According to elDiario.es, Canary Islands ranked first in Spain in August for workers affected by employment regulation files (ERE), with 1,065 affected, and also in collective redundancies, with 768. The figures are provisional and come from the Ministry of Labour and Social Economy.
Across the country, workers affected by collective redundancies rose by 30.5% in August compared to the same month in 2025, reaching 1,947. In contrast, those affected by contract suspensions fell by 37.1%, down to 1,291, and those with reduced working hours dropped by 42.3%, down to 241.
Adding the three types of procedures, the EREs authorised or communicated in August affected 3,479 workers, a 12.2% decrease compared to a year earlier. Of these, 670 were linked to force majeure causes, with a drop of 51.9%, and 2,809 to economic, technical, organisational, and production causes (ETOP), which rose by 9.3%.
The Ministry specifies that when a procedure affects workplaces in different provinces, it counts as one procedure per province. If a company reports affected workers in different months, it counts as one procedure for each month.
The services sector concentrates collective redundancies: 1,692 workers, accounting for 86.9% of the total, with an increase of 53.8% compared to August 2025. It is the only sector that records an increase. Industry accounted for 145 affected (-52.6%), construction 78 (-9.3%), and the agricultural sector 32, the same figure as a year earlier.
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