The government should cut the
maximum number of times temporary contracts can be renewed, INPS
pensions and social security agency chief Tito Boeri said
Monday.
"We must weigh revising the norm that allows up to five
renewals," he said.
"It is worrying that the growth of temp contracts is linked
to very short ones, under three months," Boeri said.
He said the government should consider "whether to make the
renewal of temporary contracts harder".
In Boeri's view, "there is a risk that it becomes a prolonged
probation period".
Boeri was speaking while presenting INPS's annual report on
jobs and the labour market.
National statistics agency ISTAT said last week that 2.784
million people were employed on temporary labour contracts in
Italy in the third quarter of 2017.
This was the highest level since the start of the statistical
series in the fourth quarter of 1992.
The statistics agency said the number of people on temporary
contracts was up 3.9% compared to the previous quarter and 13.4%
with respect to the same period in 2016.
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