ILO/KB Mpofu – Martha Maocha runs a manufacturing company which started making hand sanitizing gel during the pandemic. It’s sectors like this, reliant on essential workers, that are highlighted in today’s ILO report. New York, USA, 16 March 2023-/African Media Agency/Essential workers who kept families, societies and economies going while the world was on COVID lockdown,…
ILO/KB Mpofu – Martha Maocha runs a manufacturing company which started making hand sanitizing gel during the pandemic. It’s sectors like this, reliant on essential workers, that are highlighted in today’s ILO report. New York, USA, 16 March 2023-/African Media Agency/Essential workers who kept families, societies and economies going while the world was on COVID lockdown, need better pay and conditions urgently, if countries are to future-proof themselves from the next global crisis, UN labour experts, because people are increasinglyto engage in work which is not properly, adequately, fairly valued by society and rewarded in terms of better pay and improved working conditions,” said Manuela Tomei, Assistant...
: both improving the working conditions, reducing the social justice deficits faced by many of these categories of workers, but also for strengthening the resilience of economies, their ability to withstand shocks of whatever nature, whether it be a future pandemic, a natural disaster, or other.”in essential areas such as wages and workplace safety, as well as targeting investments in the health and food sectors and in support of small businesses.Risk of labour shortages.
ILO underscores that when poor working conditions of key workers exacerbate employee turnover and labour shortages, the . This is true both in higher and lower-income countries.Faced with the need to boost investment in order to guarantee decent work and strengthen business continuity “in good times or bad”, the UN agency urged governments, employers and workers’ organizations to work together to ensure the delivery of key goods and services.