
She is the first woman to hold the position at the head of the national association of employment agencies
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Assolavoro represents over 85% of employment agencies in Italy. Anna Gionfriddo has over 25 years of experience in human resources.
Anna Gionfriddo is the new president of Assolavoro, the national association of employment agencies, which represents over 85% of the sector.
The Assembly elected her this morning for the next three-year term: she is the first woman to hold the position. He succeeds Francesco Baroni. CEO of ManpowerGroup Italia since 2022 and president of Junior Achievement Italia since November 2024, she boasts over 25 years of experience in human resources.
"I thank the associated agencies for their trust", he declared, underlining the "significant resilience" shown by the Italian labor market in an unstable international context: "Let's start from here".
Among the priorities, bringing work to the center of discussion with institutions, businesses and social partners and strengthening the role of Assolavoro as an observatory to anticipate needs, focusing on skills, continuous training and accompaniment in transitions. Gionfriddo claimed the contribution of the Agencies to the inclusion of women, young people, over 50s and migrants, indicating the lack of skills and the decline in the active population as the challenges to be faced, even with regular immigration paths.
Four deputies complete the Presidency: Francesco Baroni (Public labor policies), Valeria Giaccari (Legality, Immigration and Mattei Plan), Marco Pagano (Trade union relations and bilateral bodies) and Rudy Giuseppe Parracino (Education and school-work transition). At the helm of E.Bi.Temp will be Marco Ceresa, of Forma.Temp Francesco Verbaro, of the Luigi Sposato Solidarity Fund Committee. During the assembly, data on the last three years of the outgoing presidency were illustrated and the volume 'The time of new work', edited by Tiziano Treu, due out in the next few weeks, was presented.
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