Approximately 158 entries of employed workers - divided between 91 non-seasonal hires, 40 seasonal and almost 27 temporary workers - and 60 new "self-employed" employment contracts. Overall there will therefore be over 218 "entries" into industrial and service companies by the end of 2012. For subordinate work, the overall balance will remain negative also for the end of the year: almost 120 fewer jobs, in partly determined by the physiological conclusion of seasonal or fixed-term contracts; 12 of them will be temporary or agency workers. The remaining 107 thousand employees lost, of a non-seasonal and seasonal nature, are distributed in all regions, with the exception of Trentino Alto Adige where employment is supported by the arrival of the tourist season, where 2.700 more jobs are expected within the end of the year.
In terms of other contractual forms, reductions of slightly less than 12 units for project collaborators are reported. According to the survey relating to the fourth quarter of 2012 by the Excelsior information system of Unioncamere and the Ministry of Labour, the demand for employed of the year (net of temporary workers) is however slightly higher than the forecasts of companies expressed for the fourth quarter of 2011 (the worst for the last two years). At the territorial level, in 17 regions hirings increased compared to the same quarter last year. The year-over-year comparison of revenues also shows demand growth in the more export-oriented industrial sectors and services.
Furthermore, there is a slight recovery compared to the previous quarters of permanent and fixed-term contracts, after the drop suffered in the previous quarter, and the relaunch of apprenticeship contracts, on which the labor reform has bet many cards.
However, an increasingly wide rift emerges between "stable" work (permanent contract, which can also be assimilated to the new apprenticeship formula) and other forms of work, both subordinated (term contracts - including seasonal ones - and temporary workers), and self-employed (project workers, VAT numbers and occasional workers): given 100 the total revenue expected in the fourth quarter of the year, 19% will be allocated to stable work and 81% to all other forms. In this regard, however, it should be highlighted that the companies, questioned in September as part of the Excelsior information system and therefore not yet fully aware of the contents of the labor market reform launched in July, in responding we highlighted the state of uncertainty of the economic situation, which induces them to hire, but makes them prefer less binding employment relationships.
“In planning the recruitment of new personnel”, said the president of Unioncamere, Ferruccio Dardanello, “companies show all the uncertainty of this economic phase. One almost gets the feeling that the productive fabric, especially in areas suited to exports, is tempted to broaden its employment base but then fears taking the longest step by introducing new personnel into its workforce on a stable basis”.
