Trade and services, Liguria loses 23,000 workers
According to Istat data, employment fell sharply in the second quarter. Filcams: 'Too many supermarkets and contractual dumping'
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Repeat openings of large supermarkets (especially in Genoa), tourism companies that, all too often, offer non-regular contracts, and the dumping of large hotel chains that, more and more, outsource work to social cooperatives. According to Marco Camassi, secretary general of Filcams CGIL Liguria, these are the main causes of the drop in the number of people employed in Liguria, in the second quarter of 2024, mainly in the services sector (-23 thousand employees), despite the fact that tourism (which is ascribed to that sector) has been doing well, at a regional level.
As far as the trend in the labour market is concerned, the Istat figures compiled by the economist Mauro Zangola state, in the second quarter of 2024 employment in Liguria fell by 15,000 (-2.3%,) compared to the same period in 2023. The decline in employment can be attributed to the services sector. Over the course of the year, in fact, the Trade and Public Establishment sector lost 20 thousand employees (-13.6%); in Other Services the drop was more contained (-3 thousand employees). By contrast, employment grew by 4 thousand in industry; by 3 thousand in construction and remained stable in agriculture.
As for the economy, Ligurian employment remained stable between Q1 and Q2 2024. But the negative trend continued in commerce and public establishments, a sector that lost 20 thousand employees over the three months. Employment is also down in agriculture (-5 thousand), while employment is growing in industry (+5 thousand), construction (+6 thousand) and Other services (+15 thousand).
Moreover, between H1 2019 and H1 2024, employment in Liguria, after having fallen from 595,000 to 566,000 due to Covid, rose again to 627,000 (+31,000).
In short, as far as we can tell, the employment factor in the region, on the whole, has only partly improved: 'the loss of jobs,' says Zangola, 'has been halted, but the recovery of employment is still far off: it is mainly women and the self-employed or self-employed who are paying the price.
