Young Italians lose their jobs

An entire generation of young Italians will be given their marching orders this Christmas. Three million young employees will lose their jobs and have no right to social assistance come the end of the year when their temporary contracts expire. The left-liberal newspaper La Reubblica comments: "True unemployment is hitting the weakest section of society, the most precarious, the apprentices and part-time workers. They don't need to be laid off, their contracts are simply not renewed. .. Flexibility means easier hiring procedures, and now we are seeing the reverse side of the coin with easier dismissals. ... In the next few days the moment of truth, the non-renewal of their contract, will extinguish the lights of Christmas for many young people. ... The current economic crisis is not to be compared with others because rather than affecting one sector or another it is hitting an entire generation, the precarious generation who have just signed their first - temporary - contracts. ... Three million precarious, sixty percent of whom are under 35."

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