Some 1.6 billion workers making up nearly half of the global workforce could lose their livelihoods to the coronavirus crisis, international officials warn.
Those …
Some 1.6 billion workers making up nearly half of the global workforce could lose their livelihoods to the coronavirus crisis, international officials warn.
Those at-risk workers have jobs in the “informal economy” that won’t pay them if they get sick or stay home amid widespread lockdowns aimed at controlling the deadly virus, according to the International Labor Organization.
The group known as the ILO expects earnings to plunge 60 percent in the first month of the crisis for the world’s 2 billion informal workers. They have poor access to health care and benefits like sick leave, making them the most vulnerable of the world’s 3.
