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The INPS Observatory monitors the progress of para-subordinate workers, including collaborators and professionals registered with the institution.
The total number of para-subordinate taxpayer workers (collaborators plus professionals) registered with INPS went from 1,251,907 in 2016 to 1,779,498 in 2025 with a growth of 42.14%. It emerges from the recently published Observatory on parasubordinates according to which the increase in members compared to 2024 was 2.76%. The average income of para-subordinate workers in 2025 was 23,159 euros, down compared to the 23,668 recorded in the previous year. The average income for collaborators (1,207,681 people) was 25,613 euros in 2025 while that of professionals (571,817 registered in the year) was 17,975 euros.
The share of women in the type of collaborators stands at 38.1% in 2025, stable compared to 2024 (38.2%), while in the type of professionals the female share is equal to 47.6% in 2025 (it was 42.7% in 2016). For women collaborators, the average income in 2025 is just over half that of men with just 17,018 euros on average compared to 30,914 euros on average for men (25,613 euros the average income for men and women).

The national collective agreement for the local functions sector 2025-2027 has been signed. The agreement, signed by Aran and the unions, affects 403,617 public employees and guarantees the adjustment of salaries in the coming weeks.

The national collective agreement for the local functions sector 2025-2027 has been signed. The agreement involves over 403 thousand public employees. Aran president Naddeo confirms the immediate effectiveness with salary adjustments expected in the coming weeks.

Kabir Mohidul, the 29-year-old Bangladeshi worker burned in the accident at Fincantieri in Ancona on 29 September, has died in Pisa hospital. He is the second victim after his colleague Sofiane Boutraa.

A twenty-year-old worker died in Valtopina when hit by a compactor roller. It is the seventh workplace victim in four days in Italy. Other serious accidents occurred in Oristano, where a man fell from scaffolding, and in Trieste, where a worker was crushed.

The taxi drivers' unions have called a national strike for 15 December 2026, preceded by demonstrations in Milan, Naples and Florence. The protest contests the government's inertia in the application of Law 12/2019 and unfair competition.

Today, October 27, the Italian theater sector is on national strike called by Slc Cgil, Fistel Cisl and Uilfpc Uil due to the failure to renew the collective agreement. Shows in Milan have been canceled and demonstrations planned in various Italian cities.