Istat, Italian more optimistic but down wages. 55% of workers … – ANSA.it

Istat, Italian more optimistic but down wages. 55% of workers … – ANSA.it

Italian more ‘optimistic’ in January 2015. According to a survey of Istat index of consumer confidence exceeds the threshold percent (from 99.9 to 104.0) and is the highest from 6 months. But goes even better for business (to 91.6 from 87.6), which together mark the highest level since September 2011 (thanks to the thrust of the sector relative to services).

They grow also pay contract, but – emphasizes the institution – it is the variation lowest since 1982 . The average hourly wages in 2014 were up only 1.3%. From year to year so Istat does that update the record low (in 2013 the average growth was 1.4%). A minimum reporting salaries back at least 32 years , the time of a generation.

The figure weighs the Public Administration sector, where contracts are blocked from 2010 and will also throughout 2015. The only comfort comes from prices , which rose even less wages (+ 0.2% in 2014), with a positive impact on purchasing power.

However, it is a game down, where the ability to spending increases only due to inflation virtually flat. The individual sectors, the Institute of Statistics detects “increases significantly above average” for the wages of those who work in the fields of telecommunications (3.5%) of working rubber or plastics (2.9%), while growths near zero are found in construction (0.5%) and transport (0.6%). Nothing moves instead for public employment. Looking only to December, wages are still on a monthly basis, while rising just 1.1% in trend terms.

In December stretches even the average wait to see each other to renew the contract , workers who expired have to wait before seeing him ‘updated’, 37.3 months, or more than three years (32.2 in December of 2013).

There are about 7 , 1 million employees pending renewal of the contract, a figure on which weighs blocking state (2.9 million workers). How many are working under an expired contract are therefore the majority 55.5%

Looking at the end of 2014, says Istat, total 17 contracts were implemented, corresponding to less than two million workers. All renewals of the private sector, says the Institute of Statistics, have a three-year term for both the legislation and for the economic, as required by the new contract in force since 2009.

The most important renewals number of workers involved are those of the compartments housing (over 600 thousand employees), agriculture (over 300 thousand) and textiles, (about 250 thousand).