Unemployment fell by 10,000 people in the Balearic Islands during the third quarter of 2026, a decrease of 22.5% compared to the previous quarter, bringing the number of unemployed to 34,400. According to data from the Labour Force Survey (EPA), published by the National Statistics Institute (INE), the Islands have seen two consecutive quarters of unemployment reduction and have recorded the lowest number of unemployed people in a third quarter since 2007.

A man has been seriously injured while working at a construction site in the municipality of Banyalbufar, in Mallorca. According to emergency services, he fell from a height of two meters.

The seasonal permanent workers in the Balearic Islands will have to wait nearly eight days to get an appointment at the Balearic Islands Employment Service (SOIB) during this year's campaign, which began this Tuesday and will run until January 31, 2027. To facilitate access to the service, users will be able to check available appointments in real time and book an in-person or telephone one.

The Labor Inspectorate has sanctioned Aena for a serious infraction related to the hiring of a worker at Menorca Airport, as reported by CCOO, the union that had denounced the facts.

Esporles is the municipality in the Balearic Islands with the highest average declared gross income. Taxpayers in this municipality declared an average of 56,468 euros in 2024, according to data from the Tax Agency. It is followed by two other municipalities in the Serra de Tramuntana, Valldemossa, with 49,102 euros, and Puigpunyent, with 45,445 euros.

The end of the tourist season has begun with a trickle of labor sanctions in the Pityusic Islands that, according to CCOO, are being used to reduce staff. The union assures that since mid-August it has been recording an average of two or three sanctions per day, especially in the hospitality sector.

The number of registered unemployed people in the Balearic Islands reached 25,706 during the month of August, 262 fewer than the same month last year, according to data published this Wednesday by the Ministry of Labour and Social Economy. In annual terms, unemployment has fallen by 1%.

Madita Wuiz has started over at 43 thanks to tattoos. She would never have imagined that her life would turn upside down due to an illness, nor that she would end up “finding beauty” in everything that has happened to her. Four years ago, her son Lleó was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. He was only ten months old and, since then, the family has been on a journey with one goal: for Lleó to be happy. Madita, her husband, Antonio, and their other two children, Álvaro, 21, and Nerea, 14, know that the best way to achieve this is for them to also be happy, despite the setbacks and painful moments.

The Balearic labor market maintains a positive year-on-year trend, despite the usual slight increase in unemployment in July. The offices of the State Public Employment Service (SEPE) registered 24,882 unemployed people during the month, a figure that represents 504 fewer unemployed than a year ago, meaning a decrease of 1.99%, according to data published this Tuesday by the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy.

Hundreds of people demonstrated this Tuesday through the streets of the center of Palma to demand an improvement in the working conditions in the Early Childhood Education sector for 0 to 3 year olds. The protest, framed within the state strike of nursery school educators, has traveled through various points in the center of Ciutat to make visible a conflict that remains deadlocked.

The trade of baker is one of those that have best resisted the passage of centuries, but it is also one of those that today faces the greatest difficulties in ensuring its continuity. The lack of generational renewal and the difficulties in finding staff have become a growing concern among traditional bakeries in the Balearic Islands, which see fewer and fewer people willing to learn a profession as demanding as it is rooted in the culture of the Islands.

More than half of nurses in the Balearic Islands intend to leave the profession, according to a study carried out by the Ministry of Health and the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII), through Investén-ISCIII. The research, considered "the largest conducted in Spain" on this issue, concludes that 39.6% of nursing professionals in the State as a whole plan to leave their jobs in the next decade and that 17% consider doing so in just two years. The work warns that the Balearic Islands, along with Madrid, the Canary Islands, and Galicia, have more than double the probability of intending to leave compared to Navarra.

A young worker has denounced, through social networks, the conditions in which a hotel in Mallorca, for which she worked, kept her during her stay at the company. Living in a bathroom, with a mattress on the floor and completely unsanitary conditions, which led to health problems, and psychological abuse that has finally taken its toll, despite having already left the company.

The Government of the Balearic Islands will allocate 1.59 million euros in 2026 to a new call for aid for self-employed workers, known as "Cuota Cero" (Zero Quota), which subsidizes part of Social Security contributions during the first years of activity.

More than 30,000 undocumented immigrants in the Islands now have the possibility to emerge from invisibility. Since April 16, long queues at town halls have become the image of the extraordinary regularization driven by the Spanish government. They have been preparing documentation for months, but until the last minute they did not know that they would also need a vulnerability certificate, and that explains, in part, the system's saturation. "I don't understand why they want it, if all of us who are undocumented are vulnerable," reflects Abdou, a 32-year-old Senegalese man. Despite this, the priority is clear. "Even if we have to lose days of work: papers are papers," assures Khalid.

More than a hundred people gathered this Friday on the Born promenade in Palma, called by UGT, to protest against a state agreement in the commerce sector that, according to the union, could mean a reduction in salary and rights for thousands of workers in the Islands.

The Damm group has reached an agreement with the workers of Agama after weeks of negotiations. Due to the factory closure in PalmaThe company will relocate five of the 14 workers, and the remaining nine will receive severance pay higher than initially agreed upon. However, according to Jesús Ávila, spokesperson for the Agama workers, the five who will remain will retain their current salaries and other employment benefits, such as seniority. Sources within the company told ARA Baleares that a social support plan has been designed, which includes the possibility of redeployment for 100% of the workforce to other companies within the group, most of them in Mallorca. Furthermore, Damm stated that they are committed to offering "an individualized solution to all those affected." As for the workers who do not accept the redeployment plan and decide to leave the company voluntarily, the agreement reached with Damm includes improved severance packages.

The third day of the new week of doctors' strikes in the Balearic Islands has forced the cancellation of a total of 3,863 appointments, diagnostic tests, and surgeries across the archipelago, according to provisional data released Wednesday by the Balearic Islands Health Service (Ib-Salut). Mallorca is the most affected island, with 3,249 medical procedures canceled. The majority of the cancellations occurred in primary care, with 2,180 appointments postponed. Regarding outpatient consultations and diagnostic tests, 1,615 appointments were canceled, while 68 surgeries were suspended.

Unemployment continues to fall in the Balearic Islands at the start of the tourist season. The archipelago ended February with 27,339 unemployed people, 7.03% fewer than a year ago and 2.52% fewer than in January. At the same time, Social Security affiliation rose to 505,280 workers, representing a year-on-year increase of 1.97% and a monthly increase of 2.75%. According to data published this Tuesday by the Ministries of Labor and Inclusion and Social Security, in absolute terms, unemployment has decreased by 706 people compared to January and by 2,068 compared to February 2025. As for affiliation, 13,529 more people are contributing to Social Security this year.