UN International Labour Organization calls for urgent reform to get the world back to work after extended covid-19 shutdown. With more than half the world’s workforce facing destitution and uncertainty due to the lay-offs caused by covid-19 pandemic scare, the director-general of the International Labour Organization (ILO) is demanding urgent international collaboration to get the

A staggering 22 million Americans in the country’s labour workforce lost their jobs between January and April 2020 due to covid closures, pushing the unemployment rate up to almost 15% – the highest rate ever recorded in the 72 years since data collection began in 1948 – and a year on, the rate hasn’t changed