As the Italian case shows, it is difficult to get out of the exceptional employment measures put in place to cushion the effects of the Covid crisis.
To prevent an explosion in layoffs, Italy was the only country to decree, as of March 17, 2020, a ban on dismissals, and it had extended the benefit of partial unemployment to any activity.
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In Italy, massive job losses
Measures which according to the Bank of Italy will have avoided about 600,000 layoffs this year.
As the end of the health crisis is not yet in sight, at the urgent request of the unions which announced a wave of 1 million layoffs, the government recently extended these two measures until March 21.
Thus, the crisis will have cost Italy a year of blocking the adaptation of companies and an equally long infusion of permanent employment.
Of course, this has not saved all jobs, since 330,000 according to Istat have disappeared in Italy since February.
Precarious jobs in particular
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