INPS says 2 mn more contracts in June than in 2019

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 19 - The annualised balance, i.e. the difference between the flows of hirings and terminations in the last twelve months that identifies the year-on-year change in employment positions in June is positive by 440,000 units, pensions and socil security agency INPS said in its latest Observatory on the labour market report Thursday.
    For permanent contracts, it said, the change was positive by 347,000 units.
    Compared to June 2019, on the eve of the pandemic, there was a growth of 1,393,000 in stable employment positions. The increase in the other types of contract was 603,000 for a total of two million positions.
    In the first six months of the year INPS recorded 4,294,151 activations of contracts in the private sector (excluding domestic and agricultural workers) and 3,354,482 terminations with a total positive balance of 939,669 contracts.
    For open-ended contracts the balance was positive by 244,108 units, down from the result for the first six months of 2023 (292,501 the positive balance for stable contracts). (ANSA).