Responding to a report published by the International Labour Organization (ILO), which predicts the equivalent of 195 million full-time job losses globally in the next 3 months, TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady yesterday said:
“Hundreds of thousands of people are losing their jobs around the world every day. It’s vital they all have the support they need to make ends meet and are not thrown into poverty.
“In Britain, that means an urgent boost to universal credit and scrapping the five-week wait for support.
“But a pandemic of this scale needs a global response. We need coordinated international action by governments to support health, protect jobs, give everyone access to social security and boost the economy when the recovery comes.
“Working together we can not only protect jobs but save lives.”