Academies accounted for 67% of teacher layoffs in June.

The month of June ended with excellent employment figures, reaching a record high of 21.86 million contributors, but this positive outlook also presents some dark spots. One of these weaknesses is an anomaly that repeats itself year after year, with a sharp decline in employment in education that will become even more acute in the following months, July and August. Teachers are laid off at the end of the school year and will be rehired when it restarts.

Detailed Social Security data allows us to understand the details of this phenomenon, revealing two basic conclusions: academies and sports centers account for 67% of the teachers laid off at the end of June, and 67% of those who became unemployed had a permanent, temporary contract.

The pattern in this sector is repeated: layoffs at the end of the course and new hiring in September.

On the last day of June, compared to the previous month, the education sector lost 145,471 members, representing a drop of 11%. As we mentioned, the layoffs are concentrated in the "Other Educational Centers" category, which includes academies, sports centers, and worker cooperatives, which account for 97,202 fewer members. This represents a 25% reduction.

The impact is less severe in private schools, with a percentage drop of half that, 13%, representing 16,685 fewer jobs. The figures for public schools are even lower, at 4%, although given the high level of teaching in the sector, this represents a high absolute figure of 26,800 layoffs. The lowest level is for state-funded schools, with a drop of 3.32%, representing 4,758 layoffs.

These figures are from the last day of June, and in an economy like Spain's, there is always a significant termination of contracts on the last day of each month.

This explains the 145,471 reduction in educational contributions as of June 30, when the monthly average is a significant but smaller drop, down by 55,000. There is no data available on the monthly average broken down by type of educational institution.

If we examine the hiring level, the lion's share of layoffs is accounted for by temporary contracts, contracts designed to guarantee permanent employment but allowing for alternating periods of employment and unemployment. They account for 67% of total membership losses when examining the last day of June, and in academies and sports centers, the percentage rises to nine out of ten layoffs.

"The pattern in education has been repeating itself for years: dismissals occur in June, July, and August, although slightly less so in the latter month, followed by a surge in hiring in September, October, and November," says María Jesús Fernández, senior economist at Funcas.

For its part, CC.OO. indicates that in many cases those affected by the layoffs are those who participate in extracurricular activities, which may be leisure activities, as well as language centers or even school cafeteria workers.

Regarding public education, there is a certain effect already in June, but it will be more noticeable in July. In these public schools, temporary teachers with vacant positions are not affected; all have contracts until August 31. It does affect those who fill vacancies with a civil servant holding the position. In this area, the extension depends on each autonomous community, with different regulations, from the strictest, which only fill vacancies, to those that maintain the contract if the substitute has worked 165 days during that academic year. In Catalonia, they are required to have worked six months during the academic year, one day in the last quarter, and to participate in training courses.