MILANO – Waiting for the short week, the hours for some Italian workers are still very long. This is what it highlights Eurostat, according to which almost one worker in ten in Italy works on average 49 hours a week. A figure higher than the EU average (7.1%), which places us behind only Greece, Cyprus and France, and which is affected by the impact of self-employment, which traditionally sees longer working hours (29.3%). of the self-employed overall work at least 49 hours). In our country, employees who work at least 49 hours a week on average are 3.8% (3.6% in the EU), while self-employed workers with employees who work these hours are 46% of the total (41.7% the EU average).
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The self-employed without employees who work 49 hours a week are 27.4% (23.6% in the EU) while those engaged in a job helping the family business who reach 49 hours are 20.1% (14% in the EU).
The percentage of workers with longer average hours rises if we look only at men with 12.9% of all employed people working at least 49 hours a week (9.9% in the EU). Among the self-employed with employees, the percentage exceeds 50% in Italy (50.8%) and stands at 46.3% in the EU.
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Data that the group leader in the Chamber of the Greens and Left Alliance Franco Mari invites us to look with concern: “Some call them Stakhanovites but they are anything but that. According to Eurostat data in Italy, almost one worker in ten between 20 and 64 years old in 2023 worked on average at least 49 hours a week, a percentage higher than the EU average (7.1%). Practically the equivalent of an extra day per week considering that the standard working hours in many cases fluctuate between 36 and 40 hours per week and if 49 hours seems too little to these people. they work too much not by choice or to expand their spending capacity towards luxury goods, but to get closer to the end of the month, most likely without even getting there, making it essential – adds Mari – to reduce working hours for the same salary. but with limits defined by law, leaving all the space for negotiation to define the methods, obtain more and do better, exactly as we did with the minimum wage proposal which the Meloni government has torn up but which remains the only fair possibility for the country. future”.