Marche residents increasingly precarious and with intermittent contracts. “It’s a growth that worries us, that’s not the case. This is why the CGIL promoted referendums on work: they are an important tool for changing the social and economic model of the region and the country”, is the comment of Giuseppe Santarelli, general secretary of CGIL Marche.
The data – According to data from the INPS Observatory on precarious employment, processed by IRES Cgil Marche, in the first three months of 2024, companies in the Marche region hired 49,482 people0.3% more than the same period in 2023 and 3.4% less than 2022.
Compared to last year, permanent hiring decreased from 7501 to 7282 (-2.9%), as did apprenticeships (-16%) and temporary work (-13.9%). . The increases in hiring with intermittent contracts are significant, going from 7532 in the 1st quarter of 2023 to 8447, with a percentage increase of 12.1%, as are seasonal hirings from 2957 to 3715 (+25.6%). The fixed-term contract is almost stable.
Eleonora Fontana, CGIL Marche secretary, underlines: “The actions implemented by the Region have led to further precarization of the labor market. Interventions by the Regional Council are necessary. We have been denouncing for some time that European resources have only been used for spot measures.”
In the 2024-2023 comparison, total hirings in the Marche show an opposite trend compared to Central Italy (-3.7%) and Italy as a whole (-1.1%).
Of the total new hires, permanent ones represent a very small share (14.7%) and are constantly decreasing.; there the most common type of contract is the fixed-term contract (41.1%)followed by the intermittent contract (17.1%).
In the Marche region, the share of permanent contracts out of the total of those activated is significantly below the country average (20.0%): the region is second to last in terms of the incidence of permanent contracts on new employment relationships. The incidence of fixed-term contracts on the total is also lower than the national average (44.9%). In reference to the activation of supply contracts, the regional value is higher than the national average (14.2% versus 12.2%). The region is also first in Italy for the highest incidence of intermittent contracts (17.1% against the national average of 9.2%), a typology which highlights a constant increase in its weight. Fontana continues: “In the Marche we are always at the top for the use of intermittent contracts. They are an indicator of precariousness and exploitation. The three-year employment plan had the aim of also reversing this scourge of the regional labor market, but it is obvious that it must be developed in a more incisive manner and tailored to the particularities of the Marche.”
Part-time relationships account for 30.9% of hirings. However, significant gender differences are confirmed: among men, hiring with part-time contracts is 20.1% of the total, while among women the percentage rises to 46.3%.
The transformations of precarious contracts into permanent relationships they were 5,814, 1,225 less than in the same period in 2023 (-17.3) and over 500 less than in 2022 (-8.6%).
The analysis – “Rather than hiring permanent or stabilizing temporary staff, companies tend to replace them by resorting to new short-term hires. Workers in the Marche region are highly exposed to the risk of remaining stuck in a long precarious situation”, highlights Fontana.
Giuseppe Santarelli, general secretary of Cgil Marche, concludes: “There must be work protected because it is a constitutional right; Safe because you have to live and not die from work; decent and therefore well paid; stable because precariousness is a loss of freedom that cuts rights and wages.”
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