According to figures from the Employment and Immigration Ministry, Extremadura, Andalucía, the Basque Country and Castilla-La Mancha are the four regions which have the least job stability in the country. Not even ten out of every 100 contracts signed in the above mentioned areas this year were indefinite. At the other end of the scale are Madrid and Cataluña, although the figures for those two regions are far from positive.

In the first 11 months of 2008, some 15,483,660 jobs were created in Spain but out of these, the majority, 13,684,116, had a stipulated end date. In contrast, only 11.62 per cent of these contracts were indefinite, which proves that the Government's reform of the employment law in 2006, which offered incentives to businesses who contracted workers indefinitely, has ceased to have an effect. Trades unions and the Government are to resume talks on how to improve the situation, but agreements are not expected to be announced until well into 2009. The focus of these discussions is now likely to be on how to save jobs rather than how to ensure better working conditions.

In 2005, 91 out of every 100 contracts were temporary but six months after the Government's reforms to the employment law were introduced, this figure dropped significantly.