Four million 238,000 workers in Italy have part-time contracts. Of these, 57.9 percent are involuntary: this is the highest incidence in the entire Eurozone. Reduced hours then, but not by choice. These are some of the data on which the new issue of the awareness and information campaign "Precariousness has too many faces. Let's fight it together”, promoted by the CGIL union together with union categories to raise attention to the issue of quality and dignity of work and income conditions. “Reduced hours," the Confederation continues, "is also the only opportunity for 6 out of 10 workers. In practice, it is also the only improper reconciliation tool available, given the shortage and too often the absence of services, from daycare to non-self-sufficiency, which also explains the high incidence of this type of contract among women: 74.2 percent of part-time employees are women, one in three of the total number of female workers. Inside is an all-female issue. A data and condition that involves all sectors. 212 thousand (23.7 percent) female workers are employed part time in the domestic and family care sectors, which comes to 50 percent of those employed as family workers. More than 200 thousand are part-timers in public administration, of which more than 80 percent are women”. How much do precarious part-time workers earn? 11,451 euros on average per year, even less in the South. It is worse for those who have both a part time and a discontinuous relationship: when these two conditions are met, the gross salary stands at 6,267 euros per year.
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