In the first ten months of this year, 5,925 individuals were affected by collective dismissals, with 5,774 of them being actually dismissed, according to the latest data from the Directorate-General for Employment and Labour Relations (DGERT).
This figure surpasses the total number of workers actually dismissed throughout last year, which stood at 5,758.
The number of workers affected by collective dismissals has been increasing since 2023, and one has to go back to 2020 to find such a high figure.
The number of collective dismissals reported by companies to the Ministry of Labor also increased by 15.2% up to October compared to the same period in 2024, reaching 471.
Similar to the number of workers affected, the number of collective dismissals reported has been rising since 2023, and the figure recorded in these first ten months remains the highest since 2020, when it reached 584 during the period under review.
Of the 471 collective dismissals reported, the majority still pertain to small and micro-enterprises, representing 39.5% and 34.6%, according to calculations by Lusa based on DGERT data.
By region, the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region leads with 227 collective dismissals until October, followed by the North with 144.
Specifically regarding October, 362 workers were actually dismissed, a figure lower than the 486 recorded in the same period last year, but higher than the 200 registered in September.
Of the 362 workers actually dismissed in October, the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region led (37% of the total) with 134 workers actually dismissed.
The manufacturing industries, wholesale and retail trade, telecommunications, computer programming, consultancy, computing infrastructure, and other information service activities are the sectors with the highest number of workers dismissed in October, with a reduction in the number of workers being the main reason cited, globally.
