Two minuses. All at once. In Sardinia, unemployment is falling, but so are the number of employed workers . This double standard is on the table for the unions, who point out our island's "structural backwardness." This is also because the 2026 season, which has just begun, is moving precisely along the lines of that contested "excess precariousness": tourism, like every year, is generating a flurry of fixed-term contracts, while the CGIL, CISL, and UIL unions are calling for "quality work." Yet there are professions that could guarantee maximum stability, but demand exceeds supply by as much as seven times.
It will take a few more weeks to measure the impact of seasonal workers on the Sardinian payroll market (official figures for the second quarter are not yet available). However, within twelve months, the Sardinian unemployment rate has fallen from 9.6% in the first half of 2025 to 7% in the same period this year. However, it is also negative for employment, which was 59% a year ago and fell to 57.5% at the beginning of the year .
Fulvia Murru, general secretary of the UIL, explains: "In Sardinia, there aren't just people looking for work and not finding it. There are also many who have stopped looking because they're discouraged, because inland opportunities are scarce and transportation is inadequate, because services don't work, because balancing work and family life is still too difficult, especially for women. This too is an indicator of the weakness of the island's economic and social system. But the issue of inactivity," which rose from 34.5% to 37.9% in one year, "is underestimated."
