Eurostat Europe civil servants country numbers revealed - The proportion of public employees in Spain is on the European Union average, although above Germany, Portugal or Italy: these are the countries with more and less civil servants.

The proportion of public employees in relation to the total number employed in Spain is on the European Union average.

According to the latest data collected by Eurostat, the average in the countries of the European Union is 18%, while in Spain this figure stands at 17.4%, as indicated by the latest Labour Force Survey (EAPS).

It should be noted that Spain is far from the percentage shown by the countries with the highest proportion of public employees. Eurostat reports that Sweden is the first country in the European Union in this category, with 29% of total employment. It is followed by Denmark (28%), Finland (24%), and Croatia and Estonia (both with 23%).

But Spain is also well above the data shown by some surrounding countries, such as Germany, with 11% of public workers compared to the total; the Netherlands and Luxembourg (both with 12%); Italy (13%) and Portugal (14%).

Eurostat Europe civil servants country numbers revealed

Another fact to bear in mind is that in 2021 Spain has reached its historical maximum number of public employees: 2.7 million workers develop their work in this sector, which represents an increase of 4% compared to January 2020.

This increase is due to the coronavirus pandemic. The health crisis has led to the need for more workers in health, education and regional and local administrations.

Eurostat Europe civil servants country numbers revealed

The figures may continue to grow in 2021. The Government has proposed to the trade unions to call 30,455 places to contest the General Administration of the State. This is the largest offer of public employment in history, 8.5% more than the 28,055 places called last year.

How is public employment distributed in Spain? This is the distribution according to the latest Statistical Bulletin of Staff at the Service of Public Administrations (BEPSAP):

• Public Sector of the Autonomous Communities: represents 59.63% of public employees.
• Public Sector of Local Government: represents 21.39% of public employees.
• State Public Sector: represents 18.98% of public employees.

Eurostat Europe civil servants country numbers revealed

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Labor Inspectors continue to suffer the effects of the cyber attack on the Ministry almost 50 days after it: "We work as we did 20 years ago"

Labour Inspectorate announced on Monday the launch of a campaign to prevent the risks of heat stroke resulting from work activity this summer. The minister of the sector, Yolanda Díaz, advanced earlier this week that the inspectors would send a total of 137,503 letters to companies that give employment to almost a million people.

In the same way, he also recalled that breaches and infringements detected during this campaign can be sanctioned with fines from 2,046 euros to 40,985, and from 40,986 to 819,780 euros if the infringement is "very serious".

Despite the deployment, the sending of these missives also symptomatizes something. Labour and Social Security inspectors continue to suffer the effects of the cyberattack that hit the Ministry on 9 June. Several sources consulted have confirmed that although the inspection activity has not ceased, the incident that hit the department with ransomware has slowed its work.

The blow to Work with the Ryuk ransomware was detected on June 9. It was the Ministry itself that detailed the details of the incident as soon as it was detected. One of the first systems to fall was the Ministry's own email: its press office was forced to remain silent for weeks.

But many of the great adversities were taken up by the labour inspectors. In many cases, the cyberattack has meant that hours of work have been lost. Much material and mail received just before the incident has been lost. And the Ministry's IT technicians continue to work against the clock to try to restore normalcy as soon as possible.

Today is, in fact, 48 days since this cyberattack was detected. At first, labour inspectors and sub-inspectors lost access to the Social Security database from their computer equipment. Now, little by little, access to this information is restored. For now, only through a few teams located in the offices of the Ministry.

In fact, many labour inspectors have been forced to re-ask companies under inspection to re-submit the information and documentation they once submitted through the usual channels. Many of the reports that were submitted to the Courts electronically have now given way to the submission of documents to the courts by post.

The email boxes returned a couple of weeks ago and inevitably the computer attack has also meant a slowdown in the inspections that the department is responsible for. For the same reason, a series of resolutions have been issued by the Directorate General of Labour that paralyzes the deadlines so that certain files dependent on the agency do not expire.

For the same reason, the president of the Union of Labour and Social Security Inspectors (SITSS), Ana Ercoreca, sends a warning message: "The activity of the Inspection has never stopped". "Visiting is being visited and is being sanctioned equally."

"It is true that this activity has been harmed by the cyberattack: we are working thanks to the personal efforts of many inspectors, sub-inspectors and administrative staff. We have changed our working system, " he says. Thanks to the fact that the inspectors already had portable computer devices, the adaptation of the Inspection to the new reality of teleworking forced by the pandemic did not catch them suddenly.

With the cyberattack, however, it has been back to work "as it was 20 years ago".

Much of the work done by the Labour Inspectorate has again been manual, analog, but the president of SITSS wants to send a warning message, in which she insists: "The activity has not stopped and it has been thanks to the effort of the staff". Ercoreca also claims the work of the administrative staff and computer technicians who continue to mitigate the effects of the incident.

The ransomware that attacked Work in June is from a strain known as Ryuk. Like any harmful code of this nature, Ryuk tries to, once it has penetrated its victim's network, increase its privileges to try to infect as many systems as possible. Once it succeeds, it begins to encrypt the files of the computers to disrupt the routine of, in this case, the Ministry of Labor.

The victim, if he wants to regain normality, will have to pay a financial ransom to the cybercriminals who have managed to hijack the network. It is unknown whether the payment has been assumed, which seems unlikely: Labor bid last month 400,000 euros in three awards to react, repair and respond to the incident.

It so happens that just 3 months earlier Ryuk also affected one of the agencies dependent on Labor: the State Public Employment Service (SEPE).