Eurostat: Romania Registered Fewest Temporary Employees In EU In 2016

Romania registered the fewest employees aged 15 to 64 employed under a temporary contract in the European Union (1.4%), while Spain (26.1%) and Poland (27.5%) were at the opposite end of the scale, according to Eurostat.

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According to Eurostat, 26.4 million employees aged 15 to 64 in the European Union had a temporary contract in 2016, namely 14.2% of all employees in the EU. This proportion was slightly higher for women (14.7%) than for men (13.8%).

More than 1 in 5 employees had a temporary contract in 2016 in Poland (27.5%), Spain (26.1%), Portugal (22.3%), Croatia (22.2%) and the Netherlands (20.6%), while temporary employees accounted for less than 5% of all employees in Romania (1.4%), Lithuania (2.0%), Estonia and Latvia (both 3.7%) as well as in Bulgaria (4.1%).

In the EU in 2016, 43.8% of employees aged 15 to 24 were employed under a temporary contract.

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