Layoffs: in the first half fell by more than 40% – BBC

the companies raise their heads: in the first six months of 2016, 4,116 have used social welfare, against 6,915 last year (-40.5% in the “structural crisis”). This is revealed by the statistical data of the Observatory of labor consultants, who examined the ministerial decrees authorizing businesses to the use of layoffs. “For the first time after 4 semesters growing – it says – the data back to decrease.”

Until June, report the consultants, “were issued by the Ministry of Labour 2,347 decrees Temporary layoff Benefits Fund (CIGS) for 4,116 production units, recording over the first half of 2015, a decline of 36.6 % of the number of orders and 40.5% “of the total number of companies. The performance of 2016, then, is a “turnaround” since the first half of 2014 production units “in distress” who asked for wage supplement for employees were 4,377, in the next half of the year were rose to 5,003, while in 2015 he had touched the highest point in June (6,915 companies with social safety nets), and within six months had occurred a decrease (5,300). The reasons for the decline are attributable “to a better economic status of Italian

companies and greater corporate accountability in the use of layoffs, in light of the new rules” introduced from September 2015. In the first half of 2016, in addition to half of the companies (52.1%) were included solidarity contracts (+5.4 percentage points compared to 2015), and for corporate crisis decrees concerning himself “30% of total production units concerned” (-6% in a year). In addition, the ‘reorganizations and conversions “concerned the” 5.8% “of the companies, while the 3.7% required the CIGS for” extraordinary administration “. The only growing causal consists of the concession decrees restructuring, increased from 147 in 2015 to 183 in 2016 (+ 24.8%), and decreased dramatically than those for failure (from 155 to 24).

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