Over nine million people in Italy are experiencing serious difficulty in the way of employment, according to a report released on Friday by the Di Vittorio Foundation of the CGIL trade union.
The report says that in 2021 16 per cent of the population were jobless, far higher than the official unemployment rate of 9.5 per cent.
This is because the official rate only includes people who are actively looking for work, while the foundation also counted many other groups of people who are inactive in the labour market and jobless, such as those who have given up hope of finding employment.
The report states, therefore, that almost 4.3 million people were jobless in Italy last year and only 2.3 million of them were officially considered unemployed.
The report also says that there were another 4.9 million people experiencing employment difficulty even though they have jobs, such as those on part-time contracts who want to work full time, and many of the people in temporary jobs, bringing the total to roughly 9.1 million.
