Labor market reforms (Jobs Act), which lowered the social charges that were put in place by the Renzi government to encourage permanent employment contract hiring, came to an end at the start of 2017. Since then the rate of permanent employment hiring has slowled markedly whilst temporary employment contracts have increased instead.
Against a slightly positive economic backdrop, Italy’s employment situation has remained positive during the first quarter of 2017 with 322,000 new private sector jobs being created, well ahead of the 266,000 that were created during the same period in 2016, according to Osservatorio del Precariato data published on 18 May by the National Institute of Social Security, INPS. However, the breakdown for these new jobs is changing.
Fewer permanent employment contracts. During the first three...
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