Rate of temporary work concerning: ACTU EDS: Not for use before 0001 AEDT Wednesday, March 13 CANBERRA, March 13 AAP - Australia has overtaken recession-hit Spain as the OECD country with the second-highest rate of temporary workers. Empirica Research to be released on Wednesday at a national summit on jobs and society shows 27.9 per cent of work in Australia is temporary. Only Chile has a higher rate of temporary work. ACTU President Ged Kearney will open the National Community Summit with a speech outlining how workplace changes are threatening social cohesion. "We have forgotten that the burdens of economic change do not fall equally, that the drive to a more efficient and flexible economy has hurt some people more than others and increased inequality," Ms Kearney will say. The Empirica Research also found 55 per cent of respondents' greatest concern for the future was their children not having access to good jobs when they grow up.