The turnover in public institutions is divided and, from 2015 to 2017, public employees increased by 1.1% . The first data of the permanent Census of public institutions 2017 of Istat see " signs of a resumption of dependent employment" . The increase relates to permanent contracts (+ 0.9%) less than fixed-term contracts (+ 2.2%). This recovery compensates for the declines in previous years and, in the 2011-2017 period, employees are almost stable (-0.1%) with a jump in temporary contracts (+ 7.3%) and a decline in fixed contracts (-0 , 8%).
" The female presence in the top positions of the institutions remains limited . The percentage of women in top positions stands at 14.4% despite they represent 56.9% of the staff on duty", stated ISTAT president Gian Carlo Blangiardo , at the presentation of the first data of the permanent Census of Public Institutions 2017. Gender equality is for Blangiardo, "an area where it is necessary to concentrate energies and targeted interventions".
"The highest share of public employees is present in Valle d'Aosta and Trento and Bolzano / Bozen (the only realities with more than 7 public employees per 100 inhabitants), the lowest in Lombardy (3.8), Veneto (4 , 3), Campania and Puglia (4.2) ", Blangiardo said, presenting the data of the permanent Census of Public Institutions 2017 through which, he says, it is possible to" dispel some commonplace ".
The civil servants are 3,321,605 in 2017 in addition to 195 thousand workers between coordinated and continuous or project collaborators, others atypical and temporary (5.5% of the units in service), according to Istat data of the Census of Public Institutions 2017. Over half of the employees (54.6%) are concentrated in the central administration, which also includes the staff of the state schools and the armed and security forces. 19.8% are employed in the National Health Service, 11.3% in the Municipalities.
Almost all public institutions have used the web for data management and the provision of their services (87.9%), “technology whose use is now consolidated in all organizational realities, with slight delays between the Municipalities ( 87.4%), the mountain communities and unions of municipalities (85.8%), non-economic public bodies (89.5%) ". This was communicated by ISTAT, which indicates that "the most advanced technologies seem to be not widespread": in 2017, 5.9% of public institutions analyzed big data and 4.6% used Internet of Thing - Iot technology. Mobile applications (19.4%) are defined as "still little exploited compared to employment opportunities", "especially considering that 41.9% of institutions use social media in interactions with users". The use of cloud computing services is instead widespread at 30.5%.
"The staff of the public administration is not always up to the challenges that technology poses" for this "it is necessary to review the calls, " said the Minister for Public Administration, Fabiana Dadone , at the presentation of the permanent census of public institutions Istat. Dadone declares that "there must be digital and transversal skills to make the PA change day by day. It is also necessary to review the insolvency procedures that must be speeded up".
There are 154 municipalities headed by an extraordinary commissioner, of which 53.2% in the South and 16.9% in the Islands as at 31 December 2017. "The phenomenon of commissioners recorded an increase of 23.2% between 2015 and 2017, due to the increase in the number of municipalities subject to extraordinary procedure in the South, "observes Istat. In Calabria, in particular, there are 27 commissioners, 17.5% of the total, followed by Campania with 25, Sicily with 18.
