"For a long time we have lived in an economy, which is defined as precarious work, and the whole economy is based on the fact that we are uncertain. Institutions that were considered relatively safe now work based on the precarious work and uncertainty" said professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences Aleksandra Kanjuo Mrčela at the roundtable at the publication of the book Through the eyes of precarious work: Time for concrete measures.
The dean of the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, Roman Kurah, also pointed out the uncertainty as one of the key aspects of precarious work. "I am most worried about the resignation among the youth, in the sense that they accept precarious work as something normal, that they somehow accepted that there are no longer full-time jobs, as if this is the current situation and they believe this is normal," said Kuhar, adding that precarious work would rob people of future planning.
According to Aleksandra Kanjuo Mrčela, one of the worst consequences of precarious work is individualization. "People are looking for individual survival strategies that focus on short-term survival, however, in the long run, these can be negative for them and for the society. An individual is exhausting himself, which leads to stress, depression, burnout because people would do anything to survive until the next month."

Precarious work is not just a problem of individuals who find themselves in a difficult position, but according to the professor at the Faculty of Economics, Jože P. Damijan, it is a problem, which affects the whole society. "By increasing precarious work, social security of those who do precarious work is not only reduced, but the social costs increase in the long run," said Damijan, adding that, politics should take this issue more seriously.

New coalition agreement – a new hope?
In the new coalition agreement, the government committed itself to deal with one of the main problems of the capitalist system, as Damijan described the precarious work.
"The employer is concerned about his interest, the worker is concerned about his interest, but the government has to set the framework, and must consider the common interest," said Kanjuo Mrčela.

Co-founder of the Services Office Goran Lukić drew attention to the part of the contract, which talks about the fact that the external employees will be directly employed. "The major problem is that all the support services have been in the past postponed to the external employees, services have been degraded, outsourcing has all of a sudden become a business model," explained Lukić. "If we look at the situation right now, many people have become disabled due to working conditions. These people are now unemployed and have found themselves in poverty. There will be more and more people like this, due to working conditions and intensity of work in Slovenia. They will live in the illusion of the retirement and the reality of absolute poverty. The coalition agreement states that something must be done about the precarious work."