Jobs Act, the war of figures is arguing the government and CGIL – the Journal

Rome – Positive debut for the first month of life of the Jobs Act. The balance between activated and terminated contracts marks a more than 92 299. Not only. While in the same month last year, the incidence of permanent contracts on the total was 17.5 percent this year rose to 25.3. The same labor minister, Giuliano Poletti, who released data, however, invites you to evaluate them with caution because, he explains, “it comes to employment contracts, not to new jobs.” However it is a fact that on March 6 has entered into force the new contract protections growing and now these figures would seem to open a window on the possibility that we can to reverse a trend stagnant on the minus sign for employment.

We activated 641,572 new contracts (in the same month last year were 620,000) and it ceased 549 273. Among those activated 162 498 are those ‘most desired’ or indefinitely while in 2014 it had been recorded 108.647.Rispetto the same period of last year are down the fixed-term contracts, 381,234 against 395,000 in 2014. The contracts apprenticeships are 16,844 and these also show a decrease compared to 2014 when 21,000 were activated. Even more evident the decline of the collaborations from 48 491 to 36 460 in 2014 to this year.

For the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, these figures are “encouraging,” although it is “initial data which are taken with caution. ” Opposition and trade unions accuse the government instead of offering a partial reading and forced to figures at the time can not yet give any concrete indication of the true performance of the labor market. “I do not know if the ministry take these numbers to the magician or horoscope – ironically Matteo Salvini leader of the Northern League – I would not want them to be presumed numbers at the expense of so many artisans and merchants with VAT losing their jobs.” From the opposite side as well Susanna Camusso, CGIL leader, raises suspicion of firing figures “by the press office of propaganda.” The leader of Forza Italy in the House, Renato Brunetta, relies on a tweet to accuse Poletti “to give numbers of new labor contracts without specifying calculation methodology and unless disprove triumphalism shortly after.” Cesare Damiano, Democratic Party, President of the Labour Commission of the Chamber, awaits the final Istat labor market before a miracle. Damiano believes are necessary corrections to the Jobs Act to make it work better, such as by making structural incentives. Maurizio Sacconi (Ap), chairman of the Senate Labor Committee, stresses “the limits of the administrative source than that statistic.”