(Finance) – Nei first two months of 2024, 1,243,368 employment contracts were activated compared to 974,399 contract terminations with a positive balance of 268,969 places. This is what emerges from the INPS Observatory on precarious employment according to which in the first two months there was a net positive change between activations, transformations and terminations of stable employment relationships of 139,967 permanent contracts.
In the first two months of 2023 the balance between activations and terminations overall it had been positive for 299,932 total contracts and for 173,871 units looking only at the stable ones.
Overall, hiring by private employers in the first two months of 2024 (excluding domestic workers and agricultural workers) was 1,243,000, with a modest decline compared to the same period of 2023 (-1%). Apprenticeship hires decreased by 10%, temporary hires by 6%, while permanent hires fell by -4%. However, there was an increase in hiring with seasonal and intermittent work contracts (+4%) and fixed-term contracts (+1%).
The transformations from fixed-term contracts in the first two months of 2024 were 141,000, decreasing compared to the same period in 2023 (-10%). Confirmations of completed apprenticeship relationships were 18,000 (-5%). Terminations in the first two months of 2024 were 974,000, an increase compared to the same period of the previous year (+1%). They registered negative changes for apprenticeship contracts (-5%) and temporary contracts (-3%), while the positive changes were for fixed-term contracts (+2%), permanent (+3%), seasonal (+4%) and intermittent (+5%).
THE stable contracts terminated were 285,962, lower than the sum of permanent hires activated in the period (273,500) and transformations from fixed-term to permanent (140,970). The activations of incentivized employment relationships in the first two months of 2024, considering both hiring and contractual changes, recorded an annual decline of 7%. Yes I amreductions recorded for the total contribution exemption for young people (-64%) with just 12,262 incentivized relationships, and for the exemption for women (-22%) due to the failure to extend the total exemptions provided for by Law 197/2022.