At March 31, 2020, compared to the same period of the previous year, there was a decrease of 239 thousand activations of employment (-44 thousand for an indefinite period and -195 thousand for a fixed term). This is what emerges from the joint note on employment trends published by Istat, Ministry of Labor, INPS, Inail and Anpal, relating to the first quarter of the year, characterized from the end of February and for the whole month of March from Covid health emergency.
In the quarterly report, the differences between the cumulative daily data of the first three months of 2020 compared to the same period of 2019 have been calculated. And after "a substantial stability" of the employment positions in the first two months of the year 2020, it is recorded " the progressive loss "at the beginning of March" up to about 220 thousand less compared to the dynamics of the flows of the first three months of 2019 ". To weigh on the reduction, it is underlined, the contraction of the new activations to which is added, with the continuation of the health emergency, the non-extension or the non-renewal of fixed-term contracts expiring in the period is added.