According to the trade union, joblessness and precarious jobs generate inequality, social exclusion and lower the development potential of individuals as well as the society as a whole.
Not being able to find a job, even after finishing higher education, prevents young people from leaving their parent's home, from starting their own family and developing personally and professionally, the trade union warned.
Joblessness also has negative effect on individual's self-esteem and mental health.
The trade union found in a survey conducted this year that almost 50% of young people are unaware of their rights during unemployment and that a third worked while being registered as unemployed.
Some 27% of the respondents reported of being discriminated at work, 73% had seen job ads with a clear gender preference.
More than 20% of them said they had been asked about their family plans at a job interview and a tenth were told they were expected not to have a child if they get the job, which is against the law.
Some 54% of young people have heard inappropriate remarks at work and 39% of them have been sexually discriminated.
As many as 32% of respondents do unpaid work, 87% of them would be willing to do work they were not trained for, 80% of them would be willing to take a job for which they are overqualified and 47% would be willing to work as self-employed in order to get the job.
Some 55% of respondents have already done work they had not been trained for and 42% of them are overqualified for the work they do.
The survey was conducted in two parts between 5 December 2017 and 20 February 2018 among 354 young people, and between 8 February and 29 March among 255 respondents.
The Ministry of Labour, the Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, meanwhile, pointed to the positive trends in the employment of youth in a press release ahead of International Youth Day.
In June, 13,411 people aged between 15 and 29 were registered as unemployed, which is 15.4% less than a year ago and 4.3% less than in May.
Just over 77,300 young people were included in the programme of state measures encouraging youth employment between 2014 and 2017. The programme that cost EUR 201m helped more than 30,000 get a state-subsidised job, while the total number of youth jobs topped 94,600, the ministry noted.
In her message, Education, Science and Sports Minister Maja Makovec Brenčič highlighted the importance of supportive and encouraging primary and secondary education systems. She noted that young people would become responsible individuals only if they were given the opportunity to make their own decisions.
