The COVID-19 pandemic posed a demanding challenge not only as a public health emergency but also as a social, economic, and political crisis. With a multifaced crisis taking place, an increase of fear, anxiety, and insecurity within the population (Kumar & Nayar, 2020) was observed. The consequences of the COVID19 crisis created along with the health and social concerns, a fast rise in economic insecurity (Fetzer et al., 2020), including job and financial insecurity due to steep rises in unemployment rates in the European Union. Under circumstances of sudden shocks such as the COVID-19 crisis, democracies, governments, and political parties have become crucial actors to address the consequences of the crisis. Hence, this paper investigates whether political parties have devoted attention to the increasing job insecurity felt by citizens during the COVID-19 crisis and if so, how have they addressed the issue. To do so, an automated text analysis from Twitter posts was used for measuring party positions and preferences on job insecurity in the European Union countries during the first stages of the crisis. The results suggest that attention has especially been paid by the left-wing parties who as a rule own the labour market issue. Yet, at the same time, special attention has been given by the populist radical right parties who do not hold ownership for the labour issue but have adopted a more protectionist approach when compared to mainstream right-wing parties.