Beer garden in Munich: Many mini-jobbers particularly affected in the catering trade
Photo: Ralph Peters / imago imagesAfter a corona-related slump in spring, the number of mini-jobbers in Germany is rising again. At the end of June, 5.9 million mini-jobbers with 450 euro jobs or short-term employment were registered nationwide in the commercial sector. That is around 200,000 more than at the end of May, said the mini-job headquarters in Bochum on Monday. Overall, however, the number of mini-jobbers is still 837,000 below the previous year's level.
"Mini-jobs are supposed to compensate for work peaks and downtimes. We can see from the current figures that this principle works," said Heinz-Günter Held, member of the management of Knappschaft-Bahn-See, who is responsible for the mini-job headquarters. There have been slumps in the number of employees in the past three months, especially in the hospitality industry as well as in the arts, entertainment and recreation sectors. Agriculture and forestry, on the other hand, saw a sharp increase in the number of mini-jobbers due to the need for harvest workers. The construction industry was also increasingly looking for auxiliary workers.
Immune to Corona: mini jobs in private households
In recent months, mini-jobs in private households have proven to be largely immune to the Corona crisis. The number of registered mini-jobbers has even increased by 2.4 percent or 7,252 people since March.
In July, a study had warned that mini-jobbers had been hit particularly hard by the corona crisis because they were not entitled to short-time work benefits.
The mini-job center is the central collection and reporting point for all marginal employment in Germany and belongs to the association of the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See.
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