The pandemic caused the loss of equivalent work hours to 255 million employees throughout the world during 2020

The covid-19 pandemic provoked a “massive day” in employment and recovery in 2021 will be “slow, unequal and random” if the political leaders do not toman the adequate media, advocates the moons the International Organization of Labor (OIT), dependent organism of the ONU.

During the 2020 “8.8% of work hours are lost worldwide [en comparación con el cuarto trimestre de 2019], which equates to 255 million full-time labor costs ”, indicates the entity in a reporter. La cifra es cuatro is the mayor and has a registrada during the financial crisis of 2009.

If the economic support plans are not in place, these massive losses will provoke a 8.3% of world labor intrusions. Es decir, USD 3.7 billion, or 4.4% of Gross Producto Interior (GDP) alledaags, precisely the OIT in its seventh report dedicated to the impact of the pandemic in the working world.

For this organism, probe ban, the impact of the pandemic on the example is underestimated.

71% of these lost employees (81 million people) are produced as a consequence of “a slowdown in the workforce, more so than the relatively low level; es decir, if there is more to the impossibility of working, probably due to the restrictions of the pandemic, because the affected people should work hard ”, indicates the OIT.

Since the covid-19 was detected in China in the finals of 2019, the pandemic has resulted in a severe economic crisis, in addition to causing more than 2.15 million deaths and more than 100 million contagions.

“Relatively solid recovery”

For 2021, the OIT predicts that in the majority of countries “will produce one recovery relatively solid in the second semester of this year, one time the commencement of evacuation programs will have an effect ”.

The Organization’s Observatory has provided three possible recovery scenarios. In the case of the veterinary referral a loss of 3% of the working hours in the whole world in 2021, always and when the pandemic is under control and increases the confidence of consumers and companies.

The most affected regions will be Central America, Europe and Asia.

No obstacle, Guy Ryder, Director-General of the OIT, said: “We are committed to a disiuntiva: an option conducive to a recoverable and unsustainable recovery, with an inequality and instability each major, which can aggravate the crisis ”.

The other life is based on “a central recovery in the people, with the end of reconstructing better and promoting employment, integration and social protection, as well as the rights of workers and social dialogue ”, added.

“Lost Generation”

In the hope of seeing what can be done to stimulate economic recovery, the OIT signaled that the females had been most affected by the pandemic that the males.

‘In particular, the women have many more probabilities than the men of the labor market and will have to form part of the labor force ”, indicates the organization.

Loose most young workers are also satisfied with the consequences, whether for the loss of employment, the loss of the active sector, or the incorporation will be delayed, according to the information, which has the “very high elevation of a lost generation”.

Youth occupancy rate (15 to 24 years) decreased by 8.7%, down to 3.7% in the case of adults.

The most affected sector is next to the hotel and gastronomy, which loses a fifth of its staff.

For another lad, the OIT signals a increase the occupancy rate in the second and third quarters of 2020 in the pursuit of information and communication, as well as in finance and security.

Nina Larson for AFP

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