Nails 170,000 people fall every year in depression for not having a job. Or for having one but charging little. Or for having a temporal agreement and not knowing if tomorrow they will renew it or not. Or for not being able to work all the hours that he wanted and being left with a meager salary at the end of the month. In short, for being in a work situation precarious. This is determined by the report presented this Friday by the Ministry of Laborthe first commissioned to analyze and evaluate the effects of working conditions on mental health.
“It is an alarming situation“, considered the coordinator of the study, the UPF researcher Joan Benach. And it is that from the commission of experts created by the second vice president, Yolanda Diaz, quantify that one in three depressions in Spain has its main origin in the office, in the supermarket, in the factory or in the workplace. “It is of such magnitude inequality that requires a pact in our country”, Díaz affirmed, slipping his desire to limit part-time shifts.
Just two years after a PP deputy yelled “go to the doctor” at the leader of Más País, Íñigo Errejón, when talking about mental health, the Ministry of Labor presents its diagnosis. “It has not been deliberate,” Errejón stated during the presentation. According to the document, almost half of the employed in Spain they suffer some kind of job insecurity. Either they have jobs for which they are highly qualified, or they have a temporary job, or they have a part-time job and would like to have a full-time job, or work ‘in B’; among others.
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Something that concerns 8.1 million employed people in Spain, with a greater preponderance of women, young people, non-normative sexual identities and people with some type of disability. If you add to the people in unemploymentthat number of precarious rises to 11 million.
A high degree of precariousness that explains, among other things, why Spain is the country that most anxiolytics and hypnotic consumes the world per inhabitant. Almost 11% of adults declare having used tranquilizers, relaxants or sleeping pills in the last two weeks, according to the report. Labor experts determine that the greater the precariousness, the greater the probability of falling into depression or developing some type of mental health disorder. “We must open the debate on new forms of organization of companies and work,” Benach pointed out.