ROME (ITALPRESS) – What awaits workers beyond Covid-19? The UGL-Censis Report “Between new poverty and changing jobs: what awaits workers beyond Covid-19”, presented on the occasion of May 1st for Labor Day, traces a picture of the ongoing evolution. There are 1.5 million poor workers in Italy: in ten years + 84% and + 690 thousand in absolute terms. A real boom of new poverty from insufficient wages. In particular, poor self-employed workers tripled in the decade: + 230% for the world of VAT numbers with low bargaining power. The increase of poor workers marks + 75%, to which is added the unprecedented boost of high poverty of middle managers and office workers (+ 113%). There are 2.9 million members of poor families in which at least one person is employed: there is a share of poverty generated or at least not amortized by the choice and possibility of their members to work. Work betrays its promise: it no longer frees all workers from poverty. In 2019-2020 the poor employed mark + 269 thousand units (+ 22%). Among self-employed workers, the poor increased by 48% and among workers by 22%. Work is even more devalued, here is the heavy legacy of a year of pandemic, which has made it even less secure, given that 65.2% of workers felt persecuted by the fear of ending up in serious economic difficulties. A stronger sentiment in companies between 10 and 49 employees (74%). Between pre-Covid-19 and post-Covid-19 Italy (February 2020 and February 2021) there were -945 thousand employees (-4.1%). A hard blow that unites employees, with 590 thousand less employed (-3.3%) and self-employed ones, with -355 thousand employed (-6.8%). A figure that cuts the world of work across social and economic conditions, with 65.7% of workers afraid or anxious and, in any case, worried about their future. In the decade 2010-2020 there was an increase in intellectual professions with 550 thousand more employees (+ 19%), of sales and personal services employees (+ 398 thousand approximately, + 10.5%) and unskilled personnel (+ 180 thousand, + 7.9%). At the same time, the collapse of executives and entrepreneurs (-100 thousand, -14%) and of workers and executives (-711 thousand, -12.1%) is striking. In the increasing work, a neopolarization emerges around the intellectual content, with more spaces on the one hand for engineers, analysts and software designers, statisticians and specialists in human and social sciences, and on the other for low-skilled or unskilled jobs, service . Meanwhile, the more traditional professional figures, from managers to workers, are decreasing. A long-term recomposition of the world of work, which has accelerated following the recent pandemic events. In fact, the daily way of working has changed, with over a third of workers carrying out their activities remotely, in smart working, especially managers and employees, even if it seems increasingly necessary to modulate it with work in the presence. The UGL-Censis Report shows that Italians are ready to reward companies that operate transparently and respect workers’ rights: 83.8% of Italians (87.4% among young people) are willing to pay something more for just social products, made without exploiting people or resorting to child labor. Then there is the conviction that in this phase it is necessary to strengthen Italian local businesses and economies: 83.6% of consumers are ready to spend more for Italian products and services, from raw materials to distribution. A figure that remains transversally high in the territories and social groups, with peaks of 87.3% among graduates. In short, the dignity of work is for Italians a constitutive value of collective ethics, which prevails over the purely economic aspect. “As emerges from the report we have produced with Censis, the world of work is constantly changing and especially in this pandemic year, workers have been forced to adapt to the changes, sometimes dramatic, which have created worrying pockets of poverty. citizens need concrete answers, the productive fabric of our country needs credit and liquidity to get out of the crisis. In this sense, the funds contained in the Recovery Plan represent a historic opportunity for the economic reconstruction of the country “. explains the Secretary General of the UGL Paolo Capone. For the president of Censis, Giuseppe De Rita, “The greatest danger for the Italian economy and society at this stage is the lethargy of too many Italians, who seem to want to remain holed up in themselves in a sort of trance. To encourage development. and going beyond the discomforts of this period, as in other difficult phases, will count not so much the super-financed plans, but the optimistic vitality inscribed in the ordinary chemistry of social life, in the rediscovered everyday life of people and communities “. (ITALPRESS). abr / com 03-May-21 18:53
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