Jobs upsurge'encouraging:' Confindustria

(ANSA) - Milan, March 27 - An increase in employment figures is the most encouraging sign yet of Italy emerging from recession, Confindustria employers' federation President Giorgio Squinzi said Friday.
    "The recovery in employment encourages us most and the fact that this happens before the stability law and the Jobs Act is an evident indicator of productive recovery," he said.
    The figure of 76 permanent job contracts "indicates positive expectations with a more extended timeframe, not just limited to short term" jobs, he said.
    "For Confindustria so many expectations put into a determined reform of the labour market courageously taken forward by the government is turning out to be right".
    Squinzi acknowledged that in addition to labour market reforms "in a phase of expansion choices also are needed focussing immediately on re-launching investments that feed growth and internal demand".