Ires research, stable but also poor work increases

More stable workers but also more poor and precarious elderly workers. It is the photograph of the labor market in Emilia-Romagna taken by Ires. A positive picture of the regional economy emerges from the study by the CGIL Research Institute. But the gaps are becoming increasingly deeper. According to the data, 2023 saw the continuation of a phase of economic slowdown that began in 2022, with regional GDP growth of 1.1% against 3.4% the previous year. Family consumption is increasing by 1.4%, however penalized by inflation, with consequences on real disposable income. 2023 recorded a +1.4% of permanent jobs, but 31.8% of employees in Emilia-Romagna had an income under 15,000 euros in 2022; 21.8 under 10,000. “Employment itself is growing and unemployment is falling. If we look, however, at the data of the million and a half employees in the private sectors in Emilia Romagna – underlines Massimo Bussandri, regional secretary of the CGIL – only 44% are stable in the full sense of the term, i.e. workers employed on a permanent basis, full time and for the entire calendar year”. “We need to have more technology, but that technology must be governed. Otherwise we have optimists up there and underneath a bubble of poor work, of poor companies that have the illiteracy of innovation” underlines the regional councilor for Productive Development, Vincenzo Colla. “We must have a great central body that is able to reach out to the weakest figures there are” he concludes.