At the end of June, for all economic sectors, the national collective agreements in force for the economic part are 50 and concern 69.9% of employees (about 9.1 million). The percentage rises to 89.3% in the private sector and is zero in the public administration, where all contracts have expired. This is reported by Istat.
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The average hourly wage in the January-June period increased by 2.6% year-on-year. The hourly contractual wage index, in June, rises by 0.5% month-on-month and 2.4% year-on-year, an increase that was 2.4% in the private sector (3.2% agriculture, 2.7% industry and 2.2% private services) and 2.3% for the public administration. Istat notes that for the total economy, after 10 quarters in which the year-on-year wage growth was higher than inflation, a reversal of trend is recorded in the second quarter.
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During the second quarter, six contracts were adopted: one in the agricultural sector, one in the industrial sector and four in private services. At the end of June, 25 contracts are awaiting renewal and involve about 3.9 million employees: less than a third (1.1 million) belong to the private sector and the rest (2.8 million) to the public administration. Between June 2025 and June 2026, the average waiting time for renewal for workers with expired contracts decreased from 24.9 to 17.9 months; slightly increasing for the private sector (from 15.6 to 17.7 months) and sharply decreasing for the public administration (from 34.4 to 18 months), thanks to the renewals of the 2022-2024 three-year period. The sectors with the highest year-on-year increases are environmental hygiene (+5.7%), gas and water and chemicals (both +5.2%). The increase is instead zero for private pharmacies.
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