Temporary employment contracts can affect employees in a variety of ways.
Empirical evidence suggests that de facto earnings of temporary workers differ from
those of full-time workers. They have much lower wages.
Competitive wage is an important element of decent work. This was stated during
a speech at the round table on the subject «Decent work - productive employment,
decent salary, modern safe workplaces». The event was held on the occasion of the
International Day of Decent Work, which was launched on the initiative of the
International Confederation of Trade Unions and is celebrated every year on October.
In the direction of ensuring of decent work, the Ministry of Social Policy actively
cooperates with the International Labour Organization. «Memorandum of
Understanding on the implementation of the Decent Work for Ukraine Program for the
period 2016-2019» was signed.
Indicators related to employment security and physical safety, participation in
training and discretion regarding job tasks are also systematically at lower levels than
among equivalent employees in permanent employment.
With the purpose of resolving the situation in the labour market, it is necessary to
introduce an efficient strategy for creating jobs, directed at increasing employment and
the effective protection of individuals from unemployment, to improve legal
mechanisms to encourage employers to create new productive high-tech workplaces.
Temporary work has a clear effect on an individual’s career. People in temporary
employment usually have fewer months in employment and more months in
unemployment or absenteeism in comparison with workers in permanent employment.
Employers have fewer incentives to provide vocation training when the employment
relationship is not long enough to compensate the training costs.
It can be seen that increased temporary employment brings risks. Poorer job
quality, especially in involuntary temporary work, can negatively affect productivity.
Temporary contracts and part-time employment in Ukraine – which are
considered as insecure forms of employment – are also not manifested with high rates
in Ukraine, and there is no evidence that insecure employment is observed among the
young disproportionally more often than among the old. For example, temporary
contracts constitute about 4,6% among recent school leavers compared to 26% EU
average, part-time employment – 5,3% compared to 13,3% EU average. For instance,
in Poland, Italy, Spain and Portugal, temporary contracts among the young constitute
more than one half; part-time jobs are most spread in the Netherlands – about 44% of
all recent school leavers’ employment. These types of employment arise because the
employer is shifting the risk related to the uncertainty of the global market toward the
employee.
High rates of working poverty among youth in developed countries could be a
reflection of the greater probability of youth being in temporary or part-time
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