Employment status

The Trades Union Congress (TUC [1]) report Agency Workers – Counting the cost of flexibility (288Kb PDF) [2] takes data from the nationally representative Labour Force Survey (LFS, Summer 2006) of 60,000 private household addresses in the UK. It supplements them with case study data from the

In October 2006, the Employment and Training Corporation (ETC [1]) published a report (876Kb PDF) [2] on how young people in Malta deal with the transition from school to employment. The report is based on several sources, including a survey carried out among 497 young people who have undergone the

The Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS [1]) was founded in 2001 as a non-profit organisation and is affiliated to Intercollege, one of the main private higher education institutions in the Republic of Cyprus. In its Shadow Report 2006 [2] for the Convention on the elimination of all

Employers as well as experts often claim that the Slovenian labour market and employment relations are rather rigid, with the majority of workers in relatively secure full-time, permanent (open-ended) employment. According to Labour Force Survey data for the second quarter of 2006, 90.7% of employed

Compared with 2004, the number of economically active persons in Poland increased by 321,000 workers in 2005, amounting to an overall workforce of 14.1 million people. Looking at the gender distribution of the workforce, men account for 55.3% of the total. The number of unemployed persons, meanwhile

The annual Living in Luxembourg socioeconomic panel (/Panel Socio-Économique Liewen zu Lëtzebuerg/, PSELL-3) survey has revealed that some 89% of employees resident in Luxembourg work on an open-ended employment contract (see below for further details about the survey). This high proportion of open

In addition to the traditional categories of employee, employer and self-employed person, the structure of employment according to occupational status includes unpaid family workers. The Household Labour Force Survey (/Ancheta forţei de muncă în gospodării/, AMIGO), conducted annually by the

The recent increase in temporary employment has provided an opportunity to re-evaluate well-established stress models. Models that proved to be predictive among permanent workers are being retested among temporary workers, that is, employees who hold dependent jobs of limited duration, as in the