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Simo Salminen1, Antti Saloniemi
1Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Occupational Safety, Helsinki, Finland. simo.salminen@ttl.fi
Objectives:
This study investigated the effect of a fixed-term job contract on encounters of violence at work. We assumed that fixed-term employees encountered more violence or threats of violence at their work than permanent employees.
Methods:
This study is based on 3 large statistical data sets: (a) the Work and Health surveys carried out by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health in 1997-2006 (n=7,519); (b) the so-called Victim study carried out by Statistics Finland in 2006, where 4088 working people were interviewed about victimization resulting in injuries and violence; and (c) another study from Statistics Finland, which interviewed 4 392 wage-earners about their working conditions in 2008.
Results:
One of the 3 data sets showed that fixed-term employees encountered more violence at work than permanent employees, whereas the other 2 did not show any difference between different contract groups.
Conclusions:
Our hypothesis concerning greater violence encounters among fixed-term employees was not confirmed.
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