Employment has risen by 167,400 people this quarter. Must take into account that those affected by a Temporary Employment Regulation File (ERTE) with suspension of employment, according to the methodology of the Statistical Office of the Union European Union (Eurostat) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) that applies in the EPA, they are considered busy. • Employed persons absent from their employment in the reference week have gone from 3,592,800 in the third quarter of the year to 1,889,100 in the fourth. The reduction is due, fundamentally, to the lower incidence of vacations, since absences due to ERTE ... (full story)