ILO says coronavirus crisis could wipe out more than 25-million jobs
Among those hardest hit will be India's estimated 120-million migrant labourers
26 March 2020 - 21:04
Geneva — Global job losses from the coronavirus crisis could far exceed the 25-million estimated just days ago, UN officials said on Thursday, as US jobless claims surged.
The UN's International Labour Organisation had estimated a week ago that, based on different scenarios for the impact of the pandemic on growth, the global ranks of the jobless would rise by between 5.3-million and 24.7-million...
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