COVID-19 pandemic plunges working world into crisis - ILO

Record ID: 1561471

  • Title: COVID-19 pandemic plunges working world into crisis - ILO
  • Date: 8th July 2020
  • Summary: FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS, UNITED STATES (FILE - APRIL 6, 2020) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF LINE OF UNEMPLOYED WORKERS STANDING OUTSIDE DOOR OF ARKANSAS WORKFORCE CENTRE WAITING TO ENTER AND FILE FOR UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
  • Embargoed: 22nd July 2020 11:08
  • Keywords: Guterres ILO Tedros United Nations coronavirus economic crisis labour lockdown unemployment
  • Location: JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA / GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS, NEW YORK, NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES / HARARE, ZIMBABWE
  • City: JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA / GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS, NEW YORK, NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES / HARARE, ZIMBABWE
  • Country: Switzerland
  • Topics: Government/Politics,United Nations
  • Reuters ID: LVA003CLY9MIV
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Global leaders called for a comprehensive approach to counter the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, which International Labour Organization chief Guy Ryder said on Wednesday (July 8) had plunged the world of work into "unprecedented crisis."
    "Let's be clear: it's not a choice between health or jobs and the economy. They are interlinked: we will either win on all fronts or fail on all fronts," United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told an ILO summit that will be addressed by dozens of heads of state and government via recorded messages.
    World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the summit the world had a special duty to protect the millions of healthcare workers at the front line of the crisis and suffering increasing cases of infection and death.
    "Together we have a duty to protect those who protect us," he said.
    The outlook for the global labour market in the second half of 2020 is "highly uncertain" and the forecast recovery will not be enough for employment to return to pre-pandemic levels this year, the ILO said last week.
    The U.N. agency said the fall in global working hours was "significantly worse than previously estimated" in the first half of the year.
    (Production: Cecile Mantovani)
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