More than half a million Catalan workers are over qualified
June 4th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
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.”



