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ILO: COVID-19 causes devastating losses in working hours and employment
The COVID-19 crisis is expected to wipe out 6.7 per cent of working hours globally in the second quarter of 2020 – equivalent to...
Explainer: SURE, a new temporary instrument to help protect jobs and people in work
What is SURE and why is the Commission proposing it?
The new instrument for temporary Support to mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) is...
COVID-19 cruelly highlights inequalities and threatens to deepen them
In many countries, income inequality has risen steeply since the 1980s, with adverse social and economic consequences. The COVID-19 pandemic now cruelly highlights those...
Anaconda of Incompetency at the Masquerade Ball of Coronavirus
Nations of the world, enthralled in their own custom-tailored
masks at the masquerade-ball of Coronavirus struggling to calm restless
citizenry already wrapped in colorful flags chanting...
Precarious workers pushed to the edge by COVID-19
If you are a freelancer, who pays your sick leave? If you work in a
retail store on a zero-hours contract and the store closes,...
ILO: Almost 25 million jobs could be lost worldwide as a result of COVID-19
The economic and labour crisis created by the
COVID-19 pandemic could increase global unemployment by almost 25 million,
according to a new assessment by the International...
A third of youth say their education is not preparing them with the skills to get jobs
An online poll of 40,000 young people in over 150
countries reveals that many young people feel their current education is not
preparing them with the...
Would You Like a Thirty-Hour Workweek?
Authors: Meena Miriam Yust and Arshad M. Khan
In the earliest days, foraging was key. Fruits,
berries, edible plants and roots comprised a varied diet, the...
New lives, new freedoms: How labour migration empowers Nepali women
When I first met Ram Kumari Chaudhary, she was an extremely shy, but
solemn, 19-year-old. She told me she wanted to go to work in...
The UK’s Struggle to Find Skilled Workers Due to Brexit
If you are a
worker in the UK and are looking to change job, now may be the right time to
polish your CV and start...