(ANSA) - ROME, JANUARY 20 - In 2021, a total of 2.821 billion hours of redundancy were authorized to companies, 35% less than the previous year. Losi reads in the INPS Observatory on layoffs.
The total number of hours of redundancy fund authorized in the period from 1 April 2020 to 31 December 2021, due to health emergencies, is equal to 6.567 billion. Due to the increase in infections in December, Covid's contributory shock absorbers grew by 147% compared to November, reaching 86.8 million hours.
In November 2021 the unemployment applications reached the INPS exceeded 211 thousand with an increase of 18.5% in November 2020. In the first 11 months of the year 1.75 million applications for unemployment benefit arrived at the INPS with a decrease of 7% on the same period of 2020. (ANSA).