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Sat, 07 Mar, 2015 12:01:01 AM FTimes Report, Mar 7  Persons working on zero-hour contracts by age in 2014¹. Source: Labour Force Survey 2014. Statistics Finland. Around 83,000 Finnish employees aged between 15 and 64 worked on so-called zero-hour contracts on average in 2014, according to Statistics Finland.
A majority of them, about 57 per cent, were women while the proportion of men was 43 per cent.
In 2014, there were 47,000 women and 36,000 men working on zero-hour contracts.
This was four per cent of all employees. A zero-hour contract here refers to an employment contract where the minimum number of working hours is zero.
Those who worked on zero-hour contracts were mainly young of which nearly one-half were aged under 25, and 65 per cent were aged under 30.
Zero-hour contracts were most common among persons aged 15 to 19.
Twenty per cent of employees in this age group worked on zero-hour contracts.
The share of employees working on zero-hour contracts among those aged 20 to 24 was 14 per cent, and six per cent among those aged 25 to 29. In older age groups, the relative share of employees working on zero-hour contracts was a couple of per cent.
Sixty-eight per cent of the employees working on zero-hour contracts reported that they were working part-time in 2014. Thirty-two per cent were working full-time.
The average working hours of everyone working on zero-hour contracts was 23 hours per week.
The average working hours of those working part-time was 15 hours per week and for those working full-time was 37 hours per week.
Most of the persons working on zero-hour contracts were found in wholesale and retail trade (15,000), human health and social work activities (11,000), and accommodation and food service activities (10,000).
Relative to the number of employees in the industry, zero-hour contracts were most common in accommodation and food service activities.
Thirteen per cent of employees in this industry had zero-hour contracts. The second largest group of about 38 per cent are those who reported studying as their main activity.
Information about persons working on zero-hour contracts was collected for the first time last year in connection with Statistics Finland’s Labour Force Survey.
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