109,000 fewer in full-time employment since 2008

Precarious work is “pervasive”, with 109,000 fewer workers in full-time, permanent employment in 2016 than in 2008, according to a study by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.

One in two, or 70,500 of those workers in temporary employment last year, said they were in the roles because they could not find permanent work — a 179% increase on 2008.

The ICTU report, to be published later today, also shows a 34% rise in the category of “part-time, self-employed without employees”, since 2008, a rise which, it says, is indicative of significant growth in bogus or false self-employment.