7 Oct, 2017 @ 16:00
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Spain WORST in the EU for offering temporary workers full time contracts

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FEWER than one in 10 temporary workers in Spain are ever offered permanent contracts.

The shocking figure makes Spain the worst out of 28 EU countries analysed in a study by Eurostat.

The UK sees 55.3% of its temporary workers find full-time work, the second highest conversion rate after Latvia on 56.8%.

They are followed by Romania and Austria on 51.9% and 47.6% respectively.

The figures also reveal that more than 25% of Spain’s workers are on temporary contracts.


And getting out of the trap of temporary work is becoming increasingly difficult.


A year before the crisis began, in 2006, the average duration of temporary contracts was 79.1 days.

Last year it dropped to 50.6, growing slightly in the first eight months of this year to 51.1 days.

Salaries for temporary employees continue to be far lower than those of permanent workers.

In 2015 the average yearly salary of a permanent employee was €24,562, compared to the average temporary worker’s €16,442.

This equates to a 33.1% difference, making temporary contracts far more attractive to employers.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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