ILO says 29 percent of essential workers underpaid globally
Workers operating sewing machines in a garment factory at the Hawassa Industrial Park in Hawassa, Southern Ethiopia. International Labour Organisation says 29 percent of essential workers are underpaid globally. PHOTO | EYERUSALEM JIREGNA | AFP
Business and Technology Reporter in Nairobi, Kenya
Nation Media Group
Workers in eight key sectors, including health and security, may have played the most critical roles at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic but they have remained the most poorly paid globally and continue to work long hours and under indecent conditions, the United Nations (UN) labour body says.
The International Labour Organization (ILO) this week warned that countries need to improve working conditions and wages of these workers to prevent increasing employee turnover, which risks labour shortages in critical sectors.
