An analysis made by the SeConS Group and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation has shown that 200,000 workers lost their jobs during the pandemic and the state of emergency. The research is based on a sample of 1,600 people who were still working in February of this year. Half of them were dismissed because their company’s activities came to a halt and one quarter because they were not offered a new contract after the expiry of the previous one.
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