CIG hours down to post 2007 low in 2018

(ANSA) - Rome, January 24 - CIG benefit hours for those laid off by struggling firms fell to a post-2007 low of 217 million in 2018, pensions and social security agency INPS said Thursday.
    This was 38% down on 2017, it said.
    INPS added that steady job contracts were almost 232,000 up in the first 11 months of 2018, and temp contracts had stopped rising in August.