YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

Employment and entrepreneurship  125 This trend reversal is due to measures taken in 2014 and 2015, which brought student work (as one of themost precarious forms of work) closer to other forms of work (in terms of rights and obligations arising from work). In fact, the majority of young people in such employment (2019: 81.2%) are invariably those who cite ‘participation in an apprenticeship or training’ as the main reason for such employment (i.e. ‘workers on stu- dent assignment’). Figure 3.3: Share of part-time employees (%) (of total employees), EU and Slovenia, by age group and selected years. 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 EU-15 (15 - 24) EU-15 (25 - 64) Slovenia (15 - 24) Slovenia (25 - 64) 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% Source: EUROSTAT – Population and social conditions/Employment and unemployment (La- bour Force Survey) A slightly different indicator of age segregation and labour market flexi- bility is work in “atypical working time” (working during weekends, at night, outside working hours). As shown in the Figure below, young peo- ple in Slovenia and in the most developed EU member states are more likely to work outside “regular hours”, with the difference between the