Pensions and social security
agency INPS said Thursday that 1,032,486 permanent open-ended
job contracts were stipulated in the first eight months of 2017
(including temporary jobs converted into steady ones), a drop of
2.5% with respect to the same period in 2016.
It said virtually the same number of steady contracts,
1,033,409, were terminated in this period.
It said a total of 4,597,982 new job contracts were
stipulated, when permanent and temporary ones are added
together, while 3,653,940 were terminated, for a net gain of
944,042.
INPS said that there was a 129.5% increase in the number of
so-called 'on-call' work contracts in the first eight months of
2017 with respect to the same period last year.
It said the increase went from 121,000 'gig' contracts in the
first eight months of 2016 to 278.000 in 2017.
It linked the rise to the scrapping of a controversial
voucher system to pay for occasional work.
INPS said Thursday that in September the number of hours it
authorized of the Cassa Integrazione (CIG) benefit for workers
who have been laid off or had their hours reduced by companies
in financial difficulty was down 49.8% on the same month last
year.
It added, however, that the number of CIG hours was up 3.9%
with respect to August.
The agency said 266.3 million CIG hours were authorized in
the first nine months of 2017, down 42.15% on the 460.4 million
in the same period last year.
It is the lowest level since 2008, when 228 million CIG hours
were authorized in the equivalent period.
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