Trade unions young people suffer from insecure jobs

One in three under 35 without permanent employment

- Insecure and precarious employment of young people, according to a survey by the trade union IG Metall is a growing problem. "They experience unemployment, involuntary job changes and time limitations as a great burden," said the deputy chairman of the union, Detlef Wetzel, on Thursday at the presentation of the study in Berlin. Contrary to the claims management company, the economic situation of young workers with the recovery from the crisis of 2009 have not improved.

A representative survey on behalf of IG Metall had shown that today 32 percent of workers under 35 years in interim or temporary work, temporary employment agency or employed by the subsidized employment, as ABM or SAM sites are. In the first such survey in 2009, the rate was 28 percent. Among the workers and employees beyond 34 years, the proportion had declined, however, from 16 to eleven percent.

Work contracts were increasingly used by companies to make uncertain and precarious employment, Wetzel said. "There are millions who are employed under these conditions. In Germany, too many people do not have good future prospects," said Wetzel. Retrieved from "Spanish conditions," the young people in Germany are still far away.



Uncertain life planning
"The increasing disorder of the labor market shall be paid especially to the young generation," said Wetzel. Thus, it criticizes nine out of ten respondents said that job insecurity lead over a long period of psychological stress, difficult life planning and family formation, and thus also possible compromise the chances for career advancement. 80 percent also expect an intensification of social inequality throughout society.

According to the IG Metall union gave - calculated excluding temporary workers - 15 percent to under 35 year olds that their employer deliverers under works contract services for other companies and they spend two thirds of their working time on the premises of the client. Wetzel also called for these employees collective bargaining agreements and co-determination as all other employees.

For the study, the IG Metall had interviewed more than 1,000 people aged 14 to 34 years. In addition, the responses flowed from 776 people from 35 years in the study.