With the economy on the rise after a very long haul, Spain’s unemployment level remains the second highest in the EU 28.
Spain endured seven years of economic crisis, with relief coming only in the latter half of 2014 when growth returned.
Since then, the percentage of jobless people has dipped finally from a peak of 27% to just over 20% now.
While many have emigrated to find work, the governing Popular Party says it has created some 500,000 jobs.
But 90% of those job contracts signed this year have been on a temporary basis, with many just part-time.
“Spain is still creating mainly precarious, temporary, unwanted part-time jobs”, the International Labour Organization said, adding “"There has been a marked increase in poor workers earning less than €690 a month."
The issue has become one focus of the debate swirling around the country ahead of the 26 June election.
The average contract length last year was 53 days, down from 79 pre-crisis, according to official figures.
This is impacting not only on lower skilled jobs, such as restaurant work, telemarketing and tourism, but also only health works as doctors and nurses are often recruited part-time.
"Over the past ten years, 161 million work contracts have been signed in a country that counts an average of 14.5 million people in its workforce," said an economist at Spain's largest trade union, the CCOO.
"That means that people keep entering and leaving companies and changing posts, activity and sectors at a frenetic pace."
