1.5 million Californians working part-time


Mary Ann Milbourn

Californians continue to feel the financial squeeze with 1.5 million in June working part-time for economic reasons, reports the state Employment Development Department.

EDD has two classifications for part-time work — those who usually work full-time but only have part-time jobs and those who usually work part-time for economic reasons.

There were 330,000 full-timers relegated to part-time jobs in June, but that was down from 402,000 a year ago. The primary reason cited was a slowdown in demand for their employer's goods and services.

However, the number of people who usually have part-time jobs grew in the last 12 months by 30,000 to 1.1 million. Most of them said they were working part-time because they couldn't find full-time positions. (EDD does not break out the number of people who may work multiple part-time jobs to make ends meet.)

Altogether, 9.2% of California's workforce was made up of part-timers in June, down from 9.4% a year ago.

Full-time work still makes up the vast majority of jobs with 12.5 million in California (78.6%) in full-time positions. That, however, was 183,000 fewer than in June 2010.




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