There are over 2.5 billion hours of layoffs and solidarity funds authorized by INPS between April and July to deal with the Covid emergency. It can be read in the Observatory on layoffs. The total number of hours of redundancy fund authorized in the period from 1 April to 31 July for health emergency -. it reads - it is equal to 2,539.9 million of which: 1,287.0 million of ordinary CIG, 782.1 million for the ordinary check for solidarity funds and 470.8 million of Cig in derogation. In the month of July alone, 449.6 million hours were authorized with a growth of 10% on June.
The recruitments activated by private employers in the first five months of 2020 were 1,795,000 with a 43% decrease compared to the same period of 2019 due to the emergency linked to the Covid-19 pandemic and the consequent restrictions. This was revealed by the Inps in the Observatory on precarious work in May according to which the drop was 30.77% for permanent hires (from 644,109 to 445,914). The transformations for a fixed period in the period January-May 2020 were 229,000, down by 31% (-43% in May). Overall terminations totaled 1,972,000, down compared to the same period in 2019. This decrease was particularly accentuated for permanent contracts in the March-May quarter (-47%) following the freeze on layoffs.
In addition, the INPS, in the Observatory on the disease, notes that in the second quarter of 2020 the certificates received by the employers collapsed while the periods of absence increased on average. In the second quarter of 2020, 3,187,689 certificates arrived compared to the 5,362,989 presented in the second quarter of 2019 with a reduction of 40.5%. The decline is mainly due to the lockdown linked to the coronavirus epidemic. "The closure of economic activities, for the entire month of April and part of May - we read - has resulted in very limited access to the offices of general practitioners, who have been contacted almost exclusively for certifications referable to COVID-19". The average prognosis days per worker with at least one day of sick leave went from 9.6 in the second quarter of 2019 to 15.3 in the same quarter of 2020 for the private sector, and from 9.2 to 17.2 for the public sector.
Boom of workers paid with the titles of the Family Book (Lf) thanks to the introduction of the baby sitter bonus to face the closure of schools linked to the Covid 19 epidemic. In May 2020 - underlines the INPS - there are about 148,000, an increase 1.461% compared to May 2019 (they were 9,455). "The growth - writes the Institute - is essentially to be referred to the introduction of the bonus for the purchase of baby-sitting services provided for by the" Cura Italia "decree, whose payment is made with the securities of the family book; average monthly gross amount of their effective remuneration is equal to 561 euros.
