seasonal demand [ seasonal requirement ]

organic oxygen-demanding waste

ability to staff high-demand jobs

over-stimulating of domestic demand

Hiring of young people in the four Southern countries is greatly skewed towards lower skilled occupations in the service sector with significant seasonal demand and high turnover. Furthermore, medium-skilled workers are hired increasingly for lower skilled position, underscoring the over-qualification of the labour force.

[88] “Qualitative evidence suggests that there is low demand for labor in the southern provinces, which is partially offset by widespread seasonal and longer-term labor migration and remittances”.

The CoR noted that this provision was especially suited to "industries which are subject to strong seasonal variations in demand for their products or services".

27. Stresses once more the role of tourism and the contribution it can make in the context of the challenge thrown down at the Lisbon European Council of 23 and 24 March 2000 to transform Europe into a region of full employment, with a vital and competitive economy, especially as regards those regions whose development is lagging behind, and the outermost regions in particular; recalls in this connection that tourist activities are highly labour-intensive, involving a workforce, especially seasonal workers, needing to be more and more specialised, which requires and encourages technologically more advanced occupational training and lang ...[+++]uage skills and greater mobility for tourist service providers;