Hoteliers are having to offer attractive employment packages.
Hoteliers are having to offer attractive employment packages.
Menorca footwear company
Company in Minorca involved in scheme of vocational training for unemployed young people.
Waiter in Menorca
Employment in the Balearics has never been higher.
Outgoing Balearic tourism minister hits back at his critics
"When they say that they prefer less intervention, what they mean is that they prefer lower salaries and more temporary contracts."
Balearics - second best region of Spain for working conditions
In 2022, the islands had one of the highest increases in average salaries in the country.
Llorenç Pou, the Balearics director-general for employment
Llorenç Pou speaking on Thursday.
Over half of Spain's new jobs in the summer were in the Balearics
Lowest unemployment rate since 2007.
Italy the main provider of foreign workers in the Balearics
There are getting on for three times as many Italian workers as there are British.
Balearics heading for full employment in the summer
A new plan has been approved that has the aim of full employment throughout the year.
A fifth of workers in the Balearics are foreign
Italians, Germans and Moroccans are the most numerous.
Mallorca and the difficulties with finding seasonal workers
Hospitality, retail, distribution, agriculture - all experiencing problems with attracting workers.
"Historic" April employment in the Balearics
Eighty per cent of new jobs in April were permanent.
Full economic recovery expected for the Balearics in 2022
Hotel openings in February will mark a start to the tourism season.
Balearics led third-quarter employment growth
Almost 48,000 more people in employment between July and September.
Disinfecting at a terrace in Palma, Mallorca
ERTE has shielded many jobs in Mallorca.
Eight per cent of businesses don't expect pre-crisis employment levels
In Spain as a whole, 18% of businesses don't expect to be employing the same number of people.
Bar terrace in Ibiza
Seasonal workers from the mainland were unable to come in 2020.
More Spanish workers came to the Balearics in 2019 than for ten years
The number of workers who came to the Balearics fell significantly because of the financial crisis.
- Spain wants Britons to show they have 113.40 euros, £97, per day for their holidays
- Major security alert at Mallorca airport, surprise landing of flights from Morocco and Namibia
- Big changes on the horizon when Britons travel to Mallorca
- Over two hours for Britons to get through Palma airport queues
- Living in a motorhome in Palma: "It'll only get worse"
Comment
Viewpoint: Recovery - Whose recovery?
"But this joyous news, combined with the growth forecasts, cannot disguise the elephants in the room."
Andrew Ede18/09/2021 10:19