Some 1.7 million people in Italy
received unemployment benefits in the first 11 months of 2016,
down 12.3% on the previous year, said INPS social security and
pensions agency on Thursday.
It said 200,678 people made unemployment claims in November
2016, up 0.9% on November 2015 figures, while in October claims
remained stable.
In 2016 companies requested 581 million hours of the Cassa
Integrazione (CIG) benefit for workers who have been temporarily
laid off or had their hours reduced by companies in financial
difficulty, down 14.8% on 2015 and at the lowest level since
2008, INPS said.
Companies requested 37.7 million CIG hours in December, in
line with November at 37.9 million, and down 11% on December
2015.
INPS said employers issued 1.5 million permanent contracts in
the first 11 months of 2016, while 1.44 million were terminated,
a difference of 65,989 contracts with a 90% decrease on 2015
(660,626) when a 100% tax break was in place for permanent
contracts.
New hires in the first 11 months of 2016 were 1.15 million,
down 32.3% on the same period in 2015.
Contract terminations for disciplinary reasons were up 27% in
the first 11 months of 2016, with 67,374 terminations compared
to 53,056 in the same period in 2015.
Overall terminations were up 4% at 561,862 compared to
539,933 in 2015.
INPS said the connection of terminations to the new
increasing protections on permanent contracts was still unclear.
Resignations over the same period were down 13.5%, from
835,754 to 722,370, most likely also due to the possibility of
online resignation.
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