For as long as this crisis lasts, a top priority for us all must be to keep working people in their jobs.
Trade unions were amongst those pressing government to deliver the Job Retention Scheme, and for additional protections for self-employed workers and working parents, to do just that. In workplaces across the country, union reps are also working to ensure that employers take advantage of it rather than making layoffs. There's a need for us all to keep fighting to ensure stronger protection for even more workers.
But we can’t avoid the reality that, around the world, tens of millions of workers are losing their jobs to this crisis. In the UK, we’ve already seen a massive increase in the number of people turning to the social security system to keep their families going.
