(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 10 - In November 2021 the number of employees increased by 64 thousand units over October and by 494 thousand units in November 2020. Istat notes this, underlining that employment grew by 700 thousand units in January 2021 while it is still lower than the pre pandemic (February 2020) of 115 thousand units. For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, the threshold of 23 million employed persons (23,059,000) has been exceeded. A large part of the new job is on a fixed-term basis with 448,000 employees in addition with a fixed-term contract (+ 17%). The employment rate rises to 58.9% (+0.2 points).
The unemployment rate drops to 9.2% with a reduction of 0.2 points over the month and 0.4 points on November 2020. There are 2,338,000 job seekers, down by 43 thousand in October and by 53 thousand in November 2020 (ANSA).