According to recent study, there is a growing percentage of workers in Ireland who cannot afford to take a week-long vacation away from home, either domestically or overseas, reports RTE.
According to an analysis of EU statistics conducted for the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), 14.8% of Irish workers were expected to have been unable to afford a week’s vacation in 2022.
Ireland saw the most percentage point gain in the EU with this 3.83 percentage point increase over the previous year’s statistic.
The data for 2022 is the most current that is currently available, but the ETUC is cautioning that the numbers for 2023 may be much worse due to a record rise in summer vacation costs and a decline in real salaries throughout the EU last year as a result of inflation, reports RTE.
According to the ETUC, between 2021 and 2022, there was a rise of over two million workers in the EU who were unable to afford a week’s vacation.
It projected that, in 2022, 14.6% of working individuals in the EU will not be able to afford a vacation, an increase from 13.8% in 2021.
The European Trade Union Institute, the ETUC’s independent research department, analysed microdata from EU statistics on income and living standards (EU-SILC) to arrive at the results.
The data for 2022 is the most current that is currently available, but the ETUC is cautioning that the numbers for 2023 may be much worse due to a record rise in summer vacation costs and a decline in real salaries throughout the EU last year as a result of inflation, reports RTE.
According to the ETUC, between 2021 and 2022, there was a rise of over two million workers in the EU who were unable to afford a week’s vacation.
It projected that, in 2022, 14.6% of working individuals in the EU will not be able to afford a vacation, an increase from 13.8% in 2021.
The European Trade Union Institute, the ETUC’s independent research department, analysed microdata from EU statistics on income and living standards (EU-SILC) to arrive at the results, reports RTE.
Using data from the EU-SILC, researchers calculated the percentage of workers who cannot afford a week off, and then reported this as the total number of impacted individuals, rounded to the closest 1,000.
Greece, Cyprus, and Romania had the most percentage of workers unable to afford a vacation.
“After working hard all year, working people should be able to afford a holiday,” said ETUC General Secretary Esther Lynch, reports RTE.
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