Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) – The number of mini-jobbers in North Rhine-Westphalia has decreased in the past year. A total of 928,000 people worked in low-wage jobs in 2021 – 44,000 fewer than in the previous year, as reported by the state statistics office IT.NRW on Monday. That was a minus of 4.5 percent. There are many mini-jobs in restaurants, pubs and hotels, and they are also widespread in sectors such as entertainment.
The main reason for the decline is the corona pandemic, according to the Federal Employment Agency in NRW. Mini-jobbers in particular were affected by lockdown phases in 2021, said Christoph Löhr, spokesman for the agency on request. “In addition, many mini-jobbers had found other jobs during the pandemic,” he said.
There was a different development among employees subject to social security contributions. According to the information, their number increased by 1.1 percent (76,000) to 6.7 million employees on average in 2021. If you add up the mini-jobbers and the permanent positions, you get an average of 7.6 million employees over the past year. That was 0.4 percent more than in 2020.
