The production growth that started in Italy in March of last year has produced its fruits: private employment hires during the year increased by 25% compared to the previous 12 months: 7,168,000 jobs to be exact. , which net of the 6,476,000 terminations (which increase by 12% on 2020) bring the balance to 692,000 hires. This is what INPS notes in its update note.
The growth has on average affected all types of contracts, even if it is more accentuated for seasonal hiring which records + 40% and + 30% for apprenticeship, administration and intermittent contracts (+ 30%). For the other types of contract, however, the numbers are more contained: + 22% fixed term and + 15% permanent hires.
Above all, to hire the largest companies, those with over 99 employees who recorded + 32% while those with 16 to 99 employees registered a + 28%. However, small businesses are not excluded from the improvement in employment, those under 15 totaled + 18%. Employment was essentially 31%, full-time compared to that recorded in 20220. However, transformations from temporary to permanent slowed down slightly, which in 2021 were 518,000 (-7% on 2020) while confirmations of apprenticeship relationships reached the end of the training period, equal to 109,000.
Terminations are also on the rise by + 12% equal to 6,476,000 in December 2021. And if those relating to intermittent contracts have been substantially stable, terminations in all other types are on the rise: + 4% for fixed-term contracts, + 17% for seasonal contracts, + 19% for permanent contracts, + 26% temporary contracts and + 27% apprenticeship contracts. As for the end of the block on layoffs, which expired on 1 July last for the industrial sectors, with the exception of the textile-clothing-footwear, it does not seem that any avalanche of layoffs has been determined for the INPS, as feared by some observers: “In the month in July 2021 in industry, excluding the Tac sector, the number of registered redundancies has significantly approached the level of 2019 (from a report, for the previous months, around 20-30% has risen to 80%) but however, it did not reach it and in the following months there was no further rapprochement “, reads.
Redundancy fund interventions as an exception, they amounted to 3.8 million hours authorized in February 2022. The cyclical change compared to the previous month recorded a decrease of 81.4%. In February 2021 the hours authorized in derogation were 67.7 million with a trend variation of -94.5%. The number of hours authorized in February 2022 in solidarity funds was 17.5 million and recorded a decrease of 21.2% compared to the previous month. In February 2021 the authorized hours were 68.7 million with a trend variation of -74.6%.
In February 2022, a total of 63.996 million Cig hours were authorized, with a decrease of 24.2% over January and 63.1% over 12 months. In communicating it, INPS underlines that the hours of ordinary layoffs authorized in February 2022 were 18.4 million. In January 26 million hours had been authorized: consequently, the cyclical variation is -29.3%. As of February 2021, the authorized hours had been 26.2 million. The number of hours of extraordinary layoffs authorized in February 2022 was 24.4 million, of which 11.7 for solidarity, with an increase of 128.6% compared to what was authorized in the same month of the previous year ( 10.7 million hours). In February 2022, compared to the previous month, there was an economic change of + 51.6%.