Cagliari is not a metropolitan city for young people: employment is falling, precarious workers are 90%
The survey by Cgil, which launches the referendum campaign: worrying increase also in the number of inactive people, who do not even look for a job. Reduction in wages distributed among womenPer restare aggiornato entra nel nostro canale Whatsapp
Ten points less for the employment rate among young people, those under 29: from 40.3% in 2023 to 31.5% the following year . And precariousness, for them, soars to 90.1%. The data on the labor market of the Metropolitan City of Cagliari recorded by the Cgil for 2024 on the basis of Istat data are worrying. Data from which it appears the referendum campaign that from April 12 will see the union engaged throughout the provincial territory in raising awareness for the vote on June 8 and 9 on the five questions on work and citizenship.
In 2024, the Metropolitan City of Cagliari, while maintaining the highest employment rate (60.8%) compared to the regional average (57.7%) and other provinces, is the only territory to see a contraction in employment compared to '23 (-0.9% compared to an average growth on the Island of 1.6%).
The contraction, the Cgil reports, «is mainly linked to the female component which, after having driven the growth of the employment rate in 2023 compared to 2022, loses almost two percentage points in 2024: it goes from 56.7% to 54.8%, widening the gap between genders again (the value for men is 67%, up 0.2%). In addition to women, the ones who are counting a reduction in the employment rate are especially the youngest, already lower than the regional average: between 15 and 24 years old it goes from 20.4% in '23 to 12.8% in '24 and it doesn't go any better for those who, by age (18-29 years), should have finished their studies, among whom, in fact, the employment rate drops from 40.3% to 31.5%».
The unemployment rate decreases from 11.6% to 9%, "but this data must be read carefully also in light of the increase in the inactivity rate, since those who are neither looking for work nor available to work are not by definition unemployed. The Metropolitan City of Cagliari is in fact the only area, together with Southern Sardinia (which however marks +0.5%) in which inactivity increases by 3 percentage points (from 30.2% to 33.2%), and also in this case it is more women who put their job search on hold".
Employment is decreasing and precariousness is increasing in '24: according to INPS data for the province , among new hires, permanent contracts account for 11.7%, -2.6% compared to '23: 86.7% are fixed-term, temporary, seasonal or intermittent contracts (they were 83.5% in '23). These data also confirm the greater vulnerability of women and young people who work less but are also more precarious: among the under 29s, the share of permanent hires is 9% for women (down almost 4 percentage points) and 5.8% for men, down from 8.5% in '23, already underestimated compared to the regional average.
A phenomenon that, according to the union, needs to be brought back to the center of public debate, first of all involving those directly concerned: the official launch day of the referendum campaign organized by the Metropolitan Chamber of Labor of Cagliari on April 12 at the Exma from 9:30 to 22:00, in conjunction with 120 cities in Italy, is dedicated to high school and university students.
The day, presented this morning in a press conference, will focus on the themes of work and citizenship expressed through the language of cinema and theater. In collaboration with Teatro dellarmadio, Rossolevante, Film Commission, there will be workshops on cinematographic language, theater seminars on safety at work, the show Looking for safeness, casting for the short film In fondo al tunnel on the themes of work.
"On June 8 and 9, we can really change the wrong laws that have undermined labor law, especially from the Jobs Act onwards," explained the general secretary of the Cgil Cagliari Simona Fanzecco, underlining that "if citizens go to vote and the yes wins, from the next day, immediately, millions of workers throughout Italy will have more stability, more protection, more security at work."
There are five questions that will be voted on. Four on work: to restore Article 18, reintroduce the reasons in fixed-term contracts, abolish the maximum limit of six months of compensation in dismissals, entrust the responsibility for health and safety to clients and not to subcontracted micro-enterprises. The fifth question instead aims to reduce from ten to five years the threshold within which the many citizens who live in Sardinia and Italy can apply for citizenship.
(Online Union)