Over 2,500 refugees and asylum seekers entered the Italian labor market with regular contracts. Openjobmetis placements grew by 10.2% and Family Care placements by 45.1%.
For Openjobmetisamong the main Employment Agencies in Italy, and for its subsidiary Family CareEmployment Agency specialized in home and hospital family care services, work does not just represent employment, but a tool for integration, autonomy and dignity. And it is precisely on this vision that the commitment that led both companies to receive recognition this year too is based “Welcome. Working for Refugee Integration 2025”assigned byUNHCRtheUN Refugee Agency.
The award valorises organizations that promote concrete job placement paths for refugees, asylum seekers and beneficiaries of international protection, through regular contracts, protected and fully compliant with national collective agreements. The initiative is promoted by UNHCR with the support of Ministry of Labor and Social PoliciesOf Confindustria and of Global Compact Network Italy.
The structural commitment of Openjobmetis And Family Carewhich over the years have developed models for matching job supply and demand capable of promoting social inclusion and, at the same time, responding to the employment needs of Italian companies. A model that also translates into targeted projects in the various production sectors: among these, the initiatives developed by Openjobmetis Agri-Food Division, which during 2025 collaborated with a solidarity consortium for the selection of manual weeding workers in the fields, involving people hosted in reception centres. There are also ongoing projects dedicated to the inclusion of agricultural workers in Abruzzo and Puglia, with the aim of promoting regular work integration paths in a sector that continues to express a significant demand for manpower.
In 2025 Openjobmetis entered the Italian job market 2,240 refugees and asylum seekerswith an increase of 10.2%compared to the previous year. These are mostly fixed-term contracts (1,988), while there are 252 permanent contracts, up by 40.8%.
The overall data is part of a phenomenon that mainly concerns the new generations: over 85% of the placements concern people under 40. The most represented nationalities are Pakistan (399), Bangladesh (386) and Nigeria (207), confirming an increasingly diversified presence in job placement paths.
Family Care has further consolidated its role in the family assistance sector, with 354 insertions of refugees and asylum seekers in 2025equal to a growth of 45.1%compared to the previous year. Also in this case, fixed-term contracts prevail (292), while permanent contracts are 62.
The composition of the insertions highlights a strong female prevalence, almost 90%, while the main nationalities involved are Peru (100), Ukraine (76) and Georgia (37).
Beyond the numbers, the overall picture confirms the growing role of regular work as instrument of social inclusion and safeguard of legality. Inclusion through contracts compliant with the CCNL contributes to reducing exposure to phenomena of labor exploitation, irregular work and gangmastering, while at the same time guaranteeing greater safety and stability for the people involved.
At the same time, these paths represent a concrete response to growing demand for labour in various Italian production sectors, in a context marked by the aging of the population and the difficulty of companies in finding qualified profiles.
«This recognition from the UNHCR confirms the direction of our daily work: building real insertion paths through regular work – he declares Rosario Rasizza, CEO of Openjobmetis and Family Care -. Every person who enters the job market in a protected way does not only represent an employment result, but a piece of social and economic balance that is recomposed. Work is the first space in which integration becomes concrete, because it generates autonomy for those who arrive and value for the production system that welcomes them. We will continue to invest in this model because it responds to a dual need of the country: inclusion and competitiveness».
The “Welcome. Working for Refugee Integration 2025” recognition thus confirms the role of Openjobmetis and Family Care in promoting a model of inclusion based on legality, skills and centrality of the person, through regular work as a social as well as economic infrastructure.
