pitkäaikaistyön

Pitkäaikaistyö describes a type of paid employment arrangement where an individual is hired on an ongoing basis with little to no guaranteed working hours or job security.

Individuals under such employment contracts are typically at the mercy of their employer, often with limited control over their schedules and working conditions. This can lead to situations where employees struggle to make ends meet due to poor or inconsistent pay.

The origins of pitkäaikaistyö can be traced back to various market-based systems where employers are concerned with ever-changing market demand. It is fed by globalizing work ethos asking for every available pool of workers with very limited job security allowing them to create employment for people located all over the globe. In countries where official work rules are poor and do not guarantee high income against the excessive amount of hours worked by a typical wage earner without regard for the impact that excessive work hours will have on the workers' combined well-being.

In some quarters of Europe, pitkäaikaistyö is being heavily debated by policymakers calling for a minimum standard of job security, weekly paid working hours guaranteed, and employee accident compensation to address numerous failures in employment rules.

Critics often argue that such prolonged uncertain work contracts disproportionately affect vulnerable groups, such as young individuals and low-income families, which is an inequality issue being everywhere debated across Europe. However, some proponents suggest that the added availability of highly paid work on open marketplaces like public outsourcing projects provide protective arrangements like job change pay unsustainable in modest rigorous full time occupations dependent upon agricultural cycles.