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Today is the big day of May
“Never in the world have so many people been unemployed at the same time”
Due to Corona, May Day has reached workers in a different and unexpected way. Workers have been unable to work for a month due to limited traffic. The wheel of his world does not turn, the hungry face of the house. In this situation, the aggressive attitude of the workers was seen yesterday in demanding work.
The booming economy turned overnight in the clutches of the corona virus. The world has never seen such a dire situation since World War II. No one could have imagined that the economy would fall into such a catastrophic situation. The entire world, including Bangladesh, is stunned. One after another workers are fired in all large and small organizations.
Institutional-informal sector, nobody is obtaining salvation. In the United States, 30 million people have applied for unemployment benefits. Economists say the virus has wreaked so much havoc on the world economy and that workers have lost many jobs.
The International Labor Organization (ILO) says that the labor situation on the world market is worsening than they thought. The company says four out of five workers worldwide are now unemployed.
In such a catastrophic situation, May Day is being observed around the world, including Bangladesh. The day is known worldwide as a glorious day for workers’ rights. But this time the day came big, with the news that the workers were unemployed.
Executive Director of the Economist and Policy Research Institute (PRI). Ahsan H. Mansoor believes that although the workers have accomplished the day, this time it has not been accomplished. Never in the world have so many people been unemployed at the same time. The number of workers in the informal sector is much higher than in the formal sector.
According to the ILO, the number of people involved in work worldwide is 3,300 million. Of this, Rs 200 crore is associated with the informal sector. Of these working people, 160 million rupees are at risk of losing their livelihood, the company said. There is still no light on the side of the tunnel.
More than 70 percent of the workforce in Bangladesh is involved in the informal sector. The corona virus is the most affected in this sector. As a result, they are being added to the list of unemployed people one after another. In addition to this, dismissal (temporary closure) and layoffs are also occurring in the institutional sector. The government also announces incentives in various sectors to keep the economy afloat. However, the procession of unemployed is growing.
According to the ILO, 61 percent of the global workforce is now unemployed due to a total or partial blockade caused by the coronavirus. That means that more than four in five workers are now unemployed. In this situation, it is expected that the activities of industrial production, food service, retail trade, housing and the informal sector will be severely interrupted. After a month of vacation (unannounced confinement) in the country, ordinary people go out in search of livelihoods.
Dr. Ahsan H. Mansoor believes that many small institutions will fall due to this momentum. The government must come forward to save the lives of ordinary people, including the unemployed.
Emphasizing giving money to people instead of the government’s food distribution program, he said the government administration depends on time to buy food grains and reach the true beneficiaries. There is also a risk of corruption. Instead, they can open their mobile bank account through a national identity card and pay government money directly there.
In addition to saving workers’ lives, the issue of livelihoods has also come to the fore. However, in the meantime, initiatives have been taken to carry out economic activities on a limited scale, opening factories on a limited scale.
Jolly Talukder, labor leader and secretary general of the Garment Workers Union Center, told Ittefaq that, on the one hand, workers are being pushed into extreme health risks under the pressure of earnings, and are being fired and fired. He called for a ban on all forms of layoffs and layoffs, protection of workers’ health, fair wages, rationing, housing, free union rights, and the implementation of democratic labor laws. In this case, as part of the government’s initiative, following Section 324 of the Labor Law, it demanded the publication of a bulletin prohibiting all layoffs, layoffs and layoffs for six months during the epidemic.
Meanwhile, the President and Prime Minister have given separate messages on the occasion of the day. President In his message, Abdul Hamid said that the new global coronavirus infection has spread as an epidemic and that coronavirus infection has also affected Bangladesh.
In her message, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina highlighted various measures taken by the government to establish workers’ rights and improve living standards. “Workers are beginning to reap the benefits of our development activities,” he said.
On May the program of the Ministry of Labor was suspended and some organizations will observe it.
The Ministry of Labor and Employment has announced the suspension of all May Day programs in view of the growing Corona outbreak. Every year for the past several years, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addressed a rally of workers at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center. Demonstrations and demonstrations were organized by the government. Discussions were organized on behalf of workers’ organizations.
The ministry also called on unions to suspend their programs to avoid the risk of the corona virus.
However, in a statement, the Minister of State for Labor and Employment, Begum Mannujan Sufian, said that to keep the country’s economy afloat in the midst of this global epidemic, homeowners must strictly adhere to hygiene standards to keep open the factories. However, some unions have declared that they will carry out their program on Friday in compliance with social distance.
Ittefaq / ZH
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