COVID-19: About half of global workforce at risk of losing livelihoods

Thursday, 30 April 2020Newsdesk

Almost 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy, nearly half of the global workforce, face an immediate danger of losing their livelihoods due to the continued sharp decline in working hours because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the International Labour Organization has said.

New Delhi, 30 April 2020

As per news report of PTI, more than 430 million enterprises in hard-hit sectors such as retail and manufacturing risk "serious disruption", the UN agency added. Globally, there are some 3.3 billion workers. Two billion have jobs in the informal economy, the most vulnerable workers in the labour market.

Source -PTI