According to the forecasts, Over 11 million Italians will leave to allow themselves a few days of leisure in the Easter bridge, but an equally significant number of people, 5.1 million, will also be forced to work during this holiday period.
The data emerges from an elaboration of the Cgia Study Office of Mestre (Venice) on Istat data. A commitment – underlines the association – which concerns all those people who also work in the majority of the other holidays of the year, in sectors that cannot close such as tourist, information, entertainment, agriculture, trade, transport, health, industry with continuous cycle productions and safety.
Of these, 1.3 million are self -employed and the other 3.8 are employees. In the last ten years, following the liberalization of the times of commercial activities, the number of workers employed during holidays has increased constantly.
The latest data reported to 2023 say that 25.8% of the total autonomous raises the shutter of their business even on holidays, while among the employees who go to work on Sunday and in other holidays it is 20.4%.
According to Istat microdes, the sector where the number of employees employed on celebrations is the highest concerns the hotel-restaurant with 785,000 units. The health sector follow, with 774,500 employees and trade with 689,900 employees. The employed of these three sectors are 2,250,000, 60% of the 3,778,700 total employees working on holidays. Employees required to work on Sunday are 20.4%, a percentage that rises to 70.2% in the hotel-restaurant sector, 32% in trade, 25.7% in the public administration (state, military, law enforcement) and 24.5% in transport.
The region with multiple employees who also work during the commanded holidays is Lombardy, with 593,600 units. Lazio (465,600), Veneto (323,400) and Emilia Romagna (287,400) follow. On the total employees, Sardinia and Liguria have the highest incidence with 26.9%. Abruzzo follow (24.9%) and Lazio (24.4%).
Compared to other European countries, Italy is still positioned in the lower part of the ranking between those who work during the holidays: in 2023 the EU average at 27 was 20.6%, with peaks of 38.6% in Holland, 35.8% in Malta, 35.4% in Finland and 32.8% in Denmark. Below are Spain (19.9%) and Germany (14.6%, the lowest in the EU).