More accidents in badly paid jobs

• April 26, 2024

Without a doubt, a precarious employment , temporary , bad payed Y little recognized It negatively affects the health of workers and exposes them unnecessarily to occupational risk.

It has been shown that instability in employment it is associated with worse mental health and that temporary employees have at least double the risk of an accident.

Therefore, various trade union organizations, such as the General Union of Workers of Spain (UGT), they emphasize that, although nowadays the precariousness of work is identified with a temporary contract, the reality is that it has many other facets, such as the lack of labor rights.

There is no real monitoring of the health of the personnel in the companies, nor is there any public monitoring.

The temporary hiring You can make the exposure of the same worker change for days, weeks or months, at the rate of your new work contracts.

On the contrary, many temporary contracts are chained, that is, the same person is hired for the same job, for the same position, for a new period.

Young people, the most affected

Those who suffer most from job insecurity are the young boys , specifically those under 35 years of age, employed in the service sector and in construction.

According to several studies, they are exposed to more serious dangers and are more vulnerable because they have less training, more haste and less preventive attention. In a single sentence: "They are more disarmed in the face of greater risks".

Under these conditions, it is not surprising that it has been demonstrated that there is a higher incidence of work accidents in the group of temporary workers. Also, it has been observed that they have at least double the risk of accidents that those that are hired by payroll.

Estimates of the International Labor Organization ( ILO), indicates that the economic cost of accidents at work, resulting from the loss in days of work, treatment and benefits paid in cash, rises every year to 4% of world GDP, a figure that exceeds the total value of the stimulus measures for respond to the economic crisis of the last two years.