Between the last quarter of 2019 and the first quarter of 2021, the number of employees in Italy fell by 2.8% with a sustained decline especially for the self-employed, down by 5.1%.
This is what emerges from the INPS annual report according to which with the pandemic independent work suffered above all with a 5.1% decrease in employed persons and 9.8% in hours worked compared to an overall -7.7%.
For employees, the decline was 2.1%.
Layoffs, excluding disciplinary layoffs, have halved from an annual average of 560,000 in the 24 months preceding the pandemic to 230,000 between March 2020 and February 2021.
The jobs preserved with the freeze on layoffs in the period March 2020-February 2021 can be estimated at about 330,000 and for more than two thirds attributable to companies with up to 15 employees.
This is what emerges from the INPS report presented today.
Economic layoffs in the year of the pandemic were about half the average 560,000 in the previous two years.
Also according to what emerges from the INPS report, the jobs preserved with the blocking of layoffs in the period March 2020-February 2021 can be estimated at about 330,000 and for more than two thirds attributable to companies with up to 15 employees.
Economic layoffs in the year of the pandemic were about half the average 560,000 in the previous two years. Overall, considering all types of contracts, at the end of February 2021 - we read - the number of employees in private companies had decreased by 37,000 units compared to the same time of the previous year.