Work, Minister Calderone: "We have a million places that we can't fill"

There are not a million workers in Italy.

Sardinian Labor Minister Marina Elvira Calderone said it at the Confcommercio Forum: «Today – in her words – we probably have a million jobs that we are unable to fill , while we have many people who are outside the working circuit and therefore from active engagement in the world of work.

The exponent of the Meloni government then spoke directly about the situation in the tertiary sector, a "solid sector that builds and looks to the future". « 70% of the operators in your sector are hired on permanent contracts . When reflections are made and many things are said which are sometimes the result of misunderstandings or ideological positions, it is said that in some sectors precarious work is growing or there is greater attention to the use of fixed-term employment contracts and which are more fragile or precarious forms of work".

Coldiretti also commented on the minister's words, underlining that in the countryside "with the arrival of summer there is a need for at least 100,000 people to make up for the lack of manpower that hit agriculture hard last year with the loss of national crops".

Again: « Specialist figures such as tractor drivers, greenhouse growers, pruners and agriculture 4.0 technicians are needed to drive drones, read weather data and use IT tools ».

(Unioneonline/L)