In the first six months of the year, INPS recorded over 3.3 million activations of employment relationships and almost 2.4 million terminations with a positive balance in the period of 925,408 units.
Most of the activations were for non-standard contracts (term, seasonal, in administration, etc.) and permanent hires were 552,440, 16.63% of the total (transformations must then be added).
The balance between income and expenses for permanent contracts was 118,694 units.
Until June, a freeze on redundancies for all companies was in force.
In June 2021, Covid layoff workers fell below one million, for the first time since the pandemic began in March 2020. This is stated in the INPS Observatory on precarious employment which calculates that 987,000 workers on cash in the month were for an average of 65 hours each. At the peak of the first wave, in April 2020, 5,620,000 workers were put into layoffs by companies for an average of 107 hours each. The hours used in June 2021 are therefore just over a tenth of those of the moment of maximum use of the shock absorber.