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Migrant Workers Need Support, Jobs At Home: ILO

Jun 24, 2020 | Pratirodh Bureau

Migrant workers and their families wait in lines outside a railway station to board a train to their home state of West Bengal, after authorities eased lockdown restrictions that were imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease in Ahmedabad on June 18, 2020

The U.N. labour agency appealed to governments on Wednesday to support tens of millions of migrant workers forced to return to their homelands due to the coronavirus pandemic only to face unemployment and poverty.

Governments should include returning workers, many of whom had lost jobs overnight, in their social protection measures and reintegrate them into national labour markets, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a report.

“This is a potential crisis within a crisis,” Manuela Tomei, Director of the ILO’s Conditions of Work and Equality Department, told a news conference.

There are an estimated 164 million migrant workers worldwide, nearly half of them women, accounting for 4.7% of the global labour force, according to the ILO. Many work in health care, transport, domestic work and agriculture.

Their remittances are key for their families and economies back home, Tomei said, citing a report from the World Bank that a $100 billion drop in remittances was forecast by year-end.

Nearly a million migrant workers have returned to South Asia alone, said Michelle Leighton, Chief of Labour Migration at ILO.

They include 500,000 Nepalese who returned from India, more than 250,000 Bangladeshis from the Middle East, 130,000 Indonesians, 100,000 Burmese and 50,000 Filipinos, mostly seafarers, ILO figures show.

Ethiopia expects between 200,000 and 500,000 migrants to return by year-end, Leighton added.

“There are serious problems with their eligibility for social protection, when they come back. For instance, they are not able to take their social security entitlement and that is a function of the need for cooperation between the sending and receiving countries,” Leighton said.

Large numbers of migrant workers in the Gulf are affected by job losses, with more than 90,000 believed to have left Kuwait since April, said Ryszard Cholewinski of ILO’s Beirut office.

But not all left jobless in the Gulf want to repatriate, he said, adding that the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have relaxed restrictions on changing employers.

Tags: coronavirus pandemic, ILO, International Labour Organization, migrant workers, poverty, Pratirodh, U.N. labour agency, unemployment

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