May 1st in Veneto is a holiday for 22,000 more employed people

VENICE. – Compared to the average figure for 2023, this year the average number of employed people with whom Veneto reaches May 1st grows by 22,000 units. The estimate is from the CGIA Research Office based on the fact that last year the average number of people employed in Veneto was two million and 226,000 units, this year, however, it should […]

VENICE. – Compared to the average figure for 2023, this year the average number of employed people with whom Veneto reaches May 1st grows by 22,000 units. The estimate is from the CGIA Research Office based on the fact that last year the average number of employed in Veneto was two million and 226,000 units, this year, however, it should reach two million and 248,000 strong> . In view of May 1st, the Cgia of Mestre also wanted to measure the quality of the labor market in Veneto, discovering that only Lombardy and the Autonomous Province of Bolzano present a better average result. The result was obtained by comparing eight indicators “recovered” from the BES (Sustainable Fair Wellbeing) report, presented about ten days ago by Istat; the indicators are: low paid employees; over-educated employed; employed with fixed-term jobs for at least five years; fatal injury and permanent disability rates; irregularly employed; satisfaction with the work performed; perception of job insecurity; involuntary part time. Compared to 2019 (pre-Covid), last year there were 72,000 more employees in the region (+3.3%), while in the last year the increase was 80 thousand units (+3.7%). And so we reached two million and 226,000 employed.

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HERE IS IN WHICH CITIES THE WORKERS HAVE INCREASED

At the provincial level, the increases in jobs affected, in particular, Padua and Treviso. In the capital of Santo, for example, compared to 2019 the employment increase was 26,200 units (+6.4%), while in the Marca the number of people increased by 21,000 units (+5.5%). In the last four years only Rovigo and Belluno have recorded data with a minus sign. In the last year, however, all seven Venetian provinces saw an increase in the number of employed people: with peaks of +6.2% in Treviso (+23,400) and +5.7% in Padua (+23,500).

BUT THERE ARE ALSO ACHILLES’ HEELS< /h3>

Of the eight indicators examined by the CGIA “only in two cases does the outcome referred to the Veneto appear to be particularly satisfactory: it concerns the number of over-educated employees and the satisfaction with the work performed”< /strong> . In the first case, Veneto is in tenth place in the national ranking with 27.8% of those interviewed reporting having a higher educational qualification than the one most commonly possessed to carry out that profession out of the total number of employed people. In the second case, however, Veneto even slips to 13th place in the national ranking. “Only” 52.3% of those interviewed expressed an average satisfaction score between eight and 10 for these aspects of the work performed: earnings, career opportunities, number of hours worked, job stability, distance from home to work, interest in the work. “Despite the fact that we can count on these significantly important results, there are still some critical issues that we struggle to overcome“, warns the CGIA.
The main one remains the low employment rate, in particular of the female one. “The trend recorded by VAT numbers should not be overlooked either”; compared to 2019, the overall number in Veneto decreased by 16,600 units (-3.5%). “Not to mention that, unfortunately, deaths in the workplace are still frighteningly high, we have historically relied on wage levels which are on average lower than the main regions of the EU, due to a very low level of labor productivity and a of NEETs still excessively high”, the CGIA concludes its analysis.