Work at pre-pandemic levels, 350 thousand more contracts

In the first quarter of 2022, the flows in the labor market (hiring, transformations, terminations) resumed the pre-pandemic levels, compromised in the two-year period 2020-2021 by the health emergency with the related closures and restrictions.

Overall, both

and

have exceeded the level of 2018-2019 and transformations have also approached the maximum level previously recorded in 2019. This is underlined by the

.

The net change recorded a

.

Among the terminations of permanent contracts, in the first quarter of the year, there was a

of an economic nature (99,288) and disciplinary (31,014), respectively equal to + 162% and + 48% in the annual comparison.

Resignations also increased, rising to 306,710.

The INPS recalls that in the first quarter of 2021 economic layoffs were still

by the regulations introduced in 2020 with the pandemic.

Resignations also

increased to 306,710 and recorded an increase in the first quarter of 2022 compared to the corresponding quarter of 2021 (+ 35%) and 2019 (+ 29%).

The annualized balance

, i.e. the difference between the flows of hires and terminations in the last twelve months and which identifies the annual change in employment positions, after the negative trends recorded in the most acute months of the first phase of the pandemic, starting from March 2021 marked a continuous recovery, notes the INPS Observatory.

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As regards

, workers employed with occasional service contracts (CPO) in March 2022 amounted to around 14 thousand units (up by 25% compared to the same month in 2021);

the average monthly gross amount of their effective remuneration is equal to

.

As regards the workers paid with the securities of the family book (Lf), in March 2022 they were about 13 thousand, a decrease of 75% compared to March 2021, the period in which the

was paid through the family book;

the average monthly gross amount of their effective remuneration is equal to

.