One-fifth (20.3%) of employees born outside the EU were employed on a temporary contract in the EU in 2020, compared with 13.8% for temporary employees born in a different EU Member State and 11.8% for native-born employees with a temporary job, according to data released today by Eurostat, the statistical service of the EU.
According to Eurostat, compared with 2019, the shares in 2020 were 1.5 percentage points (pp) lower for temporary employees born outside the EU, 1.4 pp lower for employees born in another EU Member State and 1.2 pp lower for native-born employees.
Across the EU Member States for which the results are available, in 2020 the highest share of employees born outside the EU employed on temporary contracts was recorded in Poland (40.6%), followed by Cyprus (35.8%), Spain (35.1%), Portugal (26.8%) and Sweden (25.2%). By contrast, the lowest sha
Source: Cyprus News Agency