Those who govern must permit the citizens, in particularly the young ones, to gain entry to the labour market.

They must be allowed to develop their capacity at the same time as their liberty and dignity is safeguarded.

This has not been happening in the last 5 years and the interest of the business world have had the upper hand.

This government has allowed the use of certain mechanisms to make work flexible (short-term contracts, temporary work, part-time, job sharing). These are legal and in some cases appropriate, but they are being used to keep the worker in a state of permanent precariousness.

This has been experienced by young people in recent years and they have suffered from this.

An example is the decree that put into law the European directive about discrimination at work. It didn’t include the important principle of the inversion of the burden of proof, imposed on the employer by the European directive.

In practise, according to the Government, it is the responsibility of the employer to prove that there has not been a violation of the principle of equal treatment, and it’s not the responsibility of the person discriminated against, often the weaker party to the discussion!

This is why on 19 January, I laid a question down for the European commission about this problem.

Flexible working cannot be transformed into precarious working.

It is a state of affairs that generates uncertainty. It prevents young people from investing in their future, from creating a family.

Work must not be just begging.