The unequal treatment of older and younger people in the workplace

For young career starters, a decently remunerated full-time job is more the exception than the rule. "Generation Internship" are often expected to work for free, often for many years, before they can get a professional job. Young people are now treated as second-class workers. More than half of young employees are engaged in poorly paid, precarious work. Temporary agency work has almost doubled among young employees. Every second new hire is hired based on a short-term contract. Only 1 in 3 young people who do complete an internship are then taken on for an indefinite period. Young workers also have less legal protection against dismissals and are dismissed more quickly. Young people are far more at risk of poverty than older people and less well looked-after by the welfare state.

Structural discrimination against young people in the labour market must end