Italy is the only European country to ban companies from laying off staff amid the pandemic. But mass job losses are expected across the country as the freeze comes to an end in June.
Protestors clashed with police in Rome for a second week running on Monday as small business owners and employees demonstrated against continued Covid-19 closures across the country.
In coronavirus-stricken Italy, almost one million people lost their jobs over the course of a year, official data showed on Tuesday, fuelling fresh concerns about the cost of the pandemic.
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An overloaded government website crashed, malfunctioned, and displayed other users' personal data on Wednesday after huge numbers of people tried to apply for a 600-euro hardship payment.
There are hopeful signs that Italy's quarantine measures have limited the coronavirus outbreak. But they have also left millions with little or no income, and for many the situation is getting desperate.
People in Italy work fewer years during their lifetime on average than in any other nation in Europe, new figures seem to show. But here's why that's not actually a good thing.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Wednesday he will ask the European Commission to give Italy's poorer south a special status to help boost employment and tackle organized crime.
A no-deal Brexit would cause the loss of 1.2 million jobs across Europe, including 139,140 in Italy, according to a newly-released study by Belgium's Leuven University.
About 8.4 percent of the Italian population, or five million people, were still living in “absolute poverty” in 2018 according to the latest data from Italian national statistics office Istat.
Italy's economy shrank in the third quarter, a first since 2014, official data showed on Friday, upping the pressure on the country's populist government and its big spending budget.
In her bedroom in Naples, Imma Arco folds the last items of clothing into her suitcase and zips it shut. Like so many other young Italians, the 28-year-old is leaving the country, unable to find stable employment.
Italy's unemployment rate saw a slight drop in February, with a particularly significant fall in the number of jobless young people, which hit its lowest level since 2012.
A report by Catholic charity Caritas has revealed the characteristics of a 'typical' poor person in Italy, including a few surprising changes to the status quo.
Italy's jobless rate rose to 11.4 percent in December, up from 11.3 percent in November, according to figures from the national statistics office, Istat.
Italy’s unemployment rate in October stood at 11.5 percent, the same as September, following a decline over three consecutive months, the national statistics agency, Istat, said on Tuesday.
