More than half a million Catalan workers are over qualified

According to a recent report by the CCOO trade union, almost 550,000 employees in the Cataluña region are over-qualified for the jobs they are being paid to do. Almost half of them have degrees or postgraduate qualifications.

As a result of these findings, CCOO regional socio-economic secretary, Dolores Llobet, insists that improvements in professional training “should go hand-in-hand with the creation of better quality and more value-added job opportunities in order to avoid sending out the wrong message, above all, to young people.”

She fears that young people may become “disincentivised to continue improving their qualifications.”

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