Status: 09/24/2021 8:15 a.m.
According to a report, every fifth employee in Germany works in an “atypical” employment relationship, such as part-time jobs or fixed-term contracts. This was the result of an evaluation by the Federal Statistical Office.
Around seven million people in Germany work in so-called atypical employment relationships, for example part-time with less than 20 hours a week or with a fixed-term employment contract.
That is 20.9 percent of the total of 33.4 million dependent employees, as reported by the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” (“NOZ”), citing a special evaluation by the Federal Statistical Office. According to statistics, there are also 4.5 million part-time employees with more than 20 hours a week.
Special evaluation of the 2020 microcensus
The figures come from a special analysis of the 2020 microcensus by the Federal Statistical Office, which the left-wing parliamentary group in the Bundestag commissioned.
The “atypical” employment relationships include the federal agency agency work or temporary work, marginal employment (mini-jobs), part-time employment of less than 20 hours a week and fixed-term employment.
Left demands legal entitlement to a full-time position
Bottom line, according to the Left, around 11.5 million of the 33.4 million employees do not work in so-called normal employment relationships. Parliamentary group leader Dietmar Bartsch told the NOZ that “every third person” is affected by part-time or “precarious work”. He demanded a legal right to a full-time position and the abolition of unfounded fixed-term contracts in employment contracts. In addition, temporary workers would have to get ten percent more money than permanent employees as a flexibility allowance.