In 2022, as the recovery was being driven by labour demand, the conversion of fixed-term contracts into permanent ones increased significantly. In many cases, however, fixed-term employment goes hand in hand with long-term precariousness, with close to 20 per cent of young people still on fixed-term contracts even after five years of employment.
Too many, not just the young, do not have official jobs or, if they do, are not offered adequate contractual conditions; as in the other major countries, introducing a well-designed minimum wage system could be the response to non-trivial demands for social justice.