The president of the Region will be visiting Confindustria Canavese where he will meet the CEO of Italvolt. The employers’ association presents the numbers of the Piemonte Lavoro Agency
IVREA. Comparing 2019 and 2020, due to the pandemic crisis, we can see how the local labor market has suffered a contraction in the activation of new hires with a 6.6% decrease in new employment contracts stipulated. On the other hand, the use of new hires involved 1.9% more employers in the area.
Significant in 2020 was the use of short contracts, mainly in administration, for the logistics sector linked to the increase in e-commerce, or domestic work as a response to the need for families in difficulty for the lockdown. The other more stable types of contracts, apprenticeships and open-ended contracts, underwent a general decrease (-20.0%) and so did the atypical contractual forms; the skilled professions in commercial activities and skilled workers in industry and crafts have paid the price of the health crisis with a decrease of 16.8%, they have kept the professions related to unskilled personnel in charge of packaging and warehousing.
From the intersection of the data between the Turin Chamber of Commerce and the Piemonte Lavoro Agency, it emerges that the entrepreneurial system has obviously contributed significantly to the movement of the local labor market. In 2020, over 6,260 business locations located in the Canavese area, just under 17% of the local business population, activated 70.1% of employment relationships (in total 49,080). Compared to 2019, both the number of locations involved (they were 18.2%) and the amount of goodwill declared (they were 52,547, 72.2% of the total) have dropped. of work and businesses elaborated by the Piemonte Lavoro Agency, the Turin Chamber of Commerce and Confindustria Canavese with the aim of providing as comprehensive a photograph as possible on the state of health of businesses and on the progress of work in the Canavese area.
This year the overall reading of the data takes on an extremely important value as it refers to one of the most difficult historical periods that our country has had to face from a health, economic and social point of view. The pandemic, which unfortunately does not seem to want to give up yet, has left evident wounds throughout the territory. A territory that, despite the emergency and the strong difficulties experienced, is still struggling to overcome the crisis and counter the heavy economic consequences caused by the Coronavirus.
“At the beginning of 2020, the spread of the virus led to the blocking of production activities for almost two months, our economy suffered an unprecedented slowdown and the repercussions of this arrest in some cases were heavy”, explains Cristina Ghiringhello, director of Confindustria Canavese. “The consequences of the pandemic emerge clearly from the analyzes of the Chamber of Commerce and the Piemonte Lavoro Agency. Since the beginning of the emergency, however, our companies have made every effort to adapt to a new and previously unimaginable situation. Some have reinvented themselves, others have made real organizational revolutions in order not to risk finding themselves in a position to close or drastically reduce their business. Today, more than a year after the start of the health emergency, looking at our companies we see a very heterogeneous situation: there are sectors, such as manufacturing that have held up quite well, others, such as ICT, which they have undergone a profound transformation of their organizational models (opening new scenarios and opportunities for companies and workers); then there are sectors that have been most affected by the negative effects of the emergency, such as tourism, which in Canavese, at the beginning of the pandemic, was in full development and which, having roots still very young, could find it hard more than others to engage the recovery. In this very varied picture, however, energy and potential emerge ready to be released. The data that emerged from the elaboration of our latest economic survey show, in fact, the willingness of the Canavese companies to look to the future and want to seize the opportunities that this period of crisis, but also of transformation, is offering “.
An announcement was made during the conference: on Thursday 22 April, President Alberto Cirio will visit Confindustria Canavese, where he will have a meeting with Lars Carlstrom, CEO of Italvolt.