The “inaccurate” clarifications of the Region. The CGIL response to the press release from the Liguria Region

In Liguria not everything is bad. There are also things that work that we leave to political propaganda. The function of those who administer on the one hand and of the union on the other is to look at what isn’t working, because behind it there are people who suffer.

The employment data processed by the CGIL Genoa and Liguria Economic Office are taken from uncontestable official sources, namely Istat for employment and INPS for hiring.

Some brief considerations above all:

• – the new hires are subordinate workers and are not self-employed and therefore, the figure of 87.5 percent of the new hires refers to precarious work and concerns exclusively dependent work. In independent work in Liguria there are two problems: the first is that it has grown abnormally compared to the average of the north-west and the national one and the second, which the Region shares with the CGIL, is that part of the use of VAT numbers serves to mask employed work, effectively increasing the numbers of precarious subordinate work.
• Liguria is physically located in the north west and the geography is not, at least until differentiated autonomy passes, refutable and the north west is not just the Po Valley. Liguria can therefore be perfectly classified in terms of social, economic and productive structure in the North West, so much so that the macro area is one of the items used by the statistics. Finally, it is underlined that, contrary to what is claimed by the Region, the Ligurian economy is not mainly based on tourism: employment in Liguria does not see trade-tourism as the first sector, but rather other service activities which represent half of the overall employment in Liguria.
• Finally, with respect to vouchers, the source to consult, for at least a decade, has been INPS.

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