These are the chiaroscuro of employment in Sardinia: in the first half of 2023 the net activations - i.e. the balance between new contracts and terminations - exceeded the level reached in the same period of 2022. But compared to last year, a further increase was recorded of fixed-term hiring. The numbers are contained in the November update by Bankitalia which reworked the Rfl, the Istat survey on the workforce.
A premise is needed to analyze the Sardinian trend: on the island, every year, the employment trend is affected by the "dirty" data of tourism which on the one hand breaks up the asphyxiated job offer, but on the other concentrates all the precariousness. This is why only from October, when the sun & sea season is well and truly over, can the impact of the holiday industry on the regional labor economy be precisely calculated.
Data analysis is precisely the story of this dynamic in numbers. In fact: compared to the 54,909 activations that were counted from January to June 2023, 37,302 took shape in the tourism sector. They are equivalent to 67.93 percent. But, as we said, the majority of the hirings, equal to 50,824, were on a fixed-term basis. We are traveling on Bulgarian percentages, at 92.56. It means that the contracts of more than nine out of 10 workers have expired. For all of them, the race towards the security of a fixed salary must start again next year.
The second sector that has collected the most activations, although with numbers very distant from tourism, is classified by Bankitalia as "Other services": 9,614 new contracts from January to June 2023, with a weight of 17.5 percent of the total. This is followed by commerce, with 4,242 activations (7.72%), and industry in the strict sense, with 2,388 (4.34%). Finally, construction, at 1,363 (2.48%).
Compared to the 54,909 new contracts in the first half of 2023, the certainty of a permanent position was secured by just 3,573 workers. They represent 6.5 percent of the hirings made. Apprenticeship contracts had a marginal impact: 512 activations, which overall were worth 0.93 percent.
