The layoffs exploded in April: 772.3 million hours authorized, compared to 25.3 million in the same month last year. This is an increase of 2,953.6%. Obviously the cause is the Coronavirus emergency, as the INPS has specified that 98% of the hours of ordinary layoffs and waivers have been authorized with the causal “covid-19 health emergency”. The same Institute explained that “the size of this number is so high that it is not comparable with the measure of authorizations made in the first months of 2020, but rather with the total number of annual hours authorized in the crisis period from 2009 to 2014: throughout 2009, the first year of the great economic and financial crisis, 916.1 million hours were in fact authorized “.
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The hours of ordinary layoffs authorized in April – explained INPS – there were 713 million while a year earlier, in April 2019, it had been 7.4 million, therefore just over a cent. Among the sectors most involved are industry with 605.2 million hours authorized (against 5.7 million in April 2019) but also construction (107.8 million hours compared to 1.8 million in April 2019). Furthermore, the hours authorized in April 2020 are also enormous compared to what was recorded in the previous month, where 12.7 million hours were authorized. The “extraordinary” number of layoffs authorized in April 2020 was 12.4 million, of which 2.3 million for solidarity, recording a decrease of 30.3% compared to the same month of the previous year. , which recorded 17.9 million hours authorized.
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