Last December Santa Cruz registered a total of 20,889 unemployed, which represents a decrease in unemployment of 668 people compared to November of last year and a percentage difference of -3.10%, digits that place the municipality in numbers even lower than those registered at the end of May 2019.
“This good behavior of the employment and hiring data”, has indicated the mayor, José Manuel Bermúdez, “makes us maintain and even enhance the different measures promoted by the City Council that have given good results to date, such as, among others, Consumption Bonds, tax rebates or certain tax rebates for SMEs and the self-employed ”. It should be remembered that in 2022 new tax reductions come into force, such as the exemption of the garbage tax for around 12,500 SMEs and the self-employed and the reduction of this same tax for more than 90,000 families.
These measures have also led to 9,933 contracts signed last December, which represents 49.26% more than in the same month of 2020, and with respect to the island of Tenerife, this past month As of December, the contracts signed in Santa Cruz represent more than 38% of the island’s total (26,037), which places the municipality at the forefront in generating employment on the Island.
With respect to the previous month and the unemployment data, Santa Cruz managed to drop 3.1%, a percentage that leads the decline in the four largest municipalities in the Canary Islands. In relation to the total of the Archipelago (-1.75%) the difference is almost double, and more than one percentage point with respect to the Island of Tenerife.
With regard to unemployment, the drop below 21,000 unemployed is very significant, which means that last December a total of 668 families managed to get out of their unemployment situation. This trend favors, in turn, a greater capacity of the city to generate consumption and, in this way, promote more economy, which will lead to new employment opportunities.
All the comparisons in the generation of employment, hiring and affiliations to Security give the municipality of Santa Cruz de Tenerife a leadership capacity in the economic recovery, not only on the Island, but also in the Canary Islands.
