{"id":101318,"date":"2023-03-16T10:18:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T04:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/?post_type=newss&p=101318"},"modified":"2023-03-16T10:18:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T04:48:02","slug":"urgent-investment-needed-to-improve-conditions-for-key-workers-ilo","status":"publish","type":"newss","link":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/newss\/urgent-investment-needed-to-improve-conditions-for-key-workers-ilo\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent investment needed to improve conditions for key workers: ILO"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> \u201cIn a number of countries,\u00a0key sectors are facing labour shortages, because people are increasingly\u00a0reluctant\u00a0to engage in work which is not properly, adequately, fairly valued by society and rewarded in terms of better pay and improved working conditions,\u201d said Manuela Tomei,\u00a0Assistant Director-General for Governance, Rights and Dialogue at the\u00a0International Labour Organization (ILO).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

According to a new report from ILO drawing on data from 90 countries, key workers remain\u00a0severely \u201cundervalued\u201d and their contributions insufficiently recognized.<\/p>\n

The study focuses on essential workers in sectors such as\u00a0health, retail, food systems, security, sanitation and transport. ILO\u2019s findings show that during the\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0crisis these key workers suffered\u00a0higher mortality rates\u00a0than non-key workers, because of greater exposure to the virus.<\/p>\n

They also continue to be\u00a0over-represented among low pay workers, defined as those who earn less than two-thirds of the median wage.<\/p>\n

Key recommendations in the report include\u00a0strengthening regulation\u00a0in 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":2,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[2322,450],"region":[26],"source":[1538],"country":[1920],"state":[],"city":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/101318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/newss"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/101318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101319,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/101318\/revisions\/101319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101318"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=101318"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=101318"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=101318"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=101318"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=101318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}