In Friuli Venezia Giulia, over 8 million hours of redundancy payments will be made in the first half of 2025.
WATCH THE VIDEO. In the first half of 2025, more than 307,000 workers in Italy were covered by social safety nets such as wage supplementation programs (Cassa Integrazione Guadagni, Cassa Integrazione, Solidarity Funds, and NASpI). According to INPS data compiled by UIL, the total authorized hours exceeded 314 million, a sharp decline compared to the previous year. The production crisis, fueled by technological transformations, corporate crises, and geopolitical instability, continues to severely impact the labor market, pushing more and more companies to resort to income support programs. In Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG), over 8.2 million hours of wage supplementation programs (Cassa Integrazione Guadagni, Cassa Integrazione Guadagni, and Solidarity Funds) were authorized in the first half of the year. Trieste recorded a 29.9% reduction, from over 834,000 hours to approximately 583,000; Gorizia, on the other hand, showed a worrying increase of 34.4%; Pordenone grew by 14.5%; and Udine recorded a decrease of 11.8%. The UIL emphasizes the need to strengthen active labor policies, training programs, and staff retraining strategies, especially in a constantly changing economic environment. Of particular concern is the growing use of extraordinary redundancy payments, which often signal structural crises within companies and fail to provide for the reinstatement of staff. Finally, there is alarm regarding employment: Friuli Venezia Giulia is struggling to find workers, driven by the exodus of over 10,000 young people in recent years. Low wages are also a burden: on €1,500 a month, the union reports, no one can live with dignity.
Video interview with Luigi Oddo, UIL Udine General Secretary
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