This is the 6977th most frequent Spanish word.
erte
"Erte" refers to a temporary employment regulation scheme in Spain, allowing businesses to suspend contracts or reduce working hours due to exceptional circumstances.
Here, 'ERTE' is used to refer to a temporary redundancy plan in a formal employment context.
Durante la pandemia, muchas empresas recurrieron a un ERTE.
During the pandemic, many companies turned to a furlough.
In this sentence, 'ERTEs' is used in plural form to denote multiple temporally suspended work contracts.
El gobierno implementó medidas para proteger a los afectados por los ERTEs.
The government implemented measures to protect those affected by the furloughs.
Here, 'en ERTE' specifies the status of workers temporarily laid off under the specific legislative measure.