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IRELAND TO IMPOSE NATIONWIDE COVID-19 CURBS ON MONDAY

The Irish government rejected a recommendation by health chiefs two weeks ago to
jump Level 5, the highest level of COVID-19 curbs, and instead tightened
restrictions in a varied regional approach. (AFP)
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IRELAND TO IMPOSE NATIONWIDE COVID-19 CURBS ON MONDAY


 * On Saturday, Ireland broke its record for the number of cases recorded in a
   single day for the fourth time in the space of a week

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DUBLIN: Ireland will bring in “decisive” nationwide COVID-19 restrictions on
Monday but will stop short of reintroducing the kind of lockdown imposed earlier
this year, Higher Education Minister Simon Harris said on Sunday.
The government rejected a recommendation by health chiefs two weeks ago to jump
Level 5, the highest level of COVID-19 curbs, and instead tightened restrictions
in a varied regional approach that Harris said was no longer sufficient.
On Saturday, Ireland broke its record for the number of cases recorded in a
single day for the fourth time in the space of a week, bringing cases per
100,000 people in the past 14 days to 232, the 12th highest rate among the 31
countries monitored by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
“The government will act tomorrow, the action will be decisive and it will be
nationwide action,” Harris, who was the health minister during one of Europe’s
strictest lockdowns from the end of March to mid-May, told national broadcaster
RTE.
“Tomorrow we will have to bring in more restrictions. Level 3 has not worked ...
I don’t want to be pedantic about the phrase lockdown but I don’t think that’s
exactly where we’re going but there will certainly be more restrictions.”
The government moved three counties on its open border with Northern Ireland,
which is harder hit by COVID-19, to Level 4 of its five-step framework on
Wednesday and banned most visits to homes across the country. The other 23
counties are on Level 3, which bans all indoor restaurant dining.
Under Level 4, only essential retail can stay open, although the government has
broadened that category since March. Under level 5, people would be asked to
stay at home, other than to exercise within 5 km, and restaurants can only
operate a take away and delivery service.
“In relation to businesses, we’re trying to get the balance right here. We want
to keep as much open as we can but we can’t prolong the inevitable either ...
What government is trying to do is try to find that landing spot,” Harris said.



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ILO HIGHLIGHTS PLIGHT OF MILLIONS OF HOME-BASED WORKERS

The UN’s International Labor Organization (ILO) has seized on this new awareness
to highlight the predicament of what it estimates to be 260 million home-based
workers worldwide. (Shutterstock/File Photo)
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ILO HIGHLIGHTS PLIGHT OF MILLIONS OF HOME-BASED WORKERS


 * Only 10 member states have ratified the 1996 Homeworking Convention
 * ‘Working in very poor conditions, homeworkers haven’t seen the benefit of
   economic growth or globalization,’ ILO senior economist tells Arab News

Updated 58 min 55 sec ago
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NEW YORK: The increasing number of people forced by the COVID-19 pandemic to
work from home has generated a lot of attention on both the benefits and trials
of working remotely.

The UN’s International Labor Organization (ILO) has seized on this new awareness
to highlight the predicament of what it estimates to be 260 million home-based
workers worldwide — 8 percent of global employment — who had for decades prior
to the pandemic been working under precarious conditions.

Homeworkers are a heterogeneous group. They include highly skilled teleworkers
who work remotely on a continual basis, and a vast number of impoverished
industrial workers who are required to produce goods that cannot be automated,
such as artisanal goods like embroidery and handicrafts.

A third category, digital platform workers, provides services such as processing
insurance claims or copy editing. All, however, must deal with the implications
of working from home.

“There are all sorts of labor-intensive work, sometimes at the bottom of the
supply chains, sometimes in handicrafts, that continue to be done at home,” ILO
senior economist Janine Berg told Arab News.

“But because it’s being done at home, it’s really invisible. Working in very
poor conditions, homeworkers haven’t seen the benefit of economic growth or
globalization. We can’t magically expect this to trickle down. Action is
needed.”

Berg co-authored the report “Working from home: From invisibility to decent
work,” a comprehensive two-year study and analysis of conditions worldwide that
showed the urgent need, in low- and middle-income countries, for home-based
workers to have social protection.

Most work informally and are worse off than those who work outside the home,
even in higher-skilled professions.

“There’s what we call a homeworker wage penalty. The difference in earnings for
someone working from home is really striking — 50 percent less in India. In the
UK, most homeworkers were high-skilled teleworkers on the higher end of the
earning distribution, but they were earning 13 percent less than their
(non-home-based) counterparts,” Berg said.

“This is to tell you that invisibility, being at home, not being in contact, not
having this face time with your employer, can over time affect your working
conditions.”

Homeworking is often poorly regulated, and compliance with existing laws remains
a challenge. In many cases, homeworkers are classified as independent
contractors and therefore excluded from the scope of labor legislation.

Homeworking Convention No. 177 was passed in 1996, with the objective of
transforming such work into a respectable source of employment by promoting
equality of treatment between homeworkers and other wage earners.

However, only 10 ILO member states have ratified the convention, and few have a
national policy in place on working from home.

“In so many countries there are beautiful laws on paper, but they’re completely
forgotten,” said Berg. “That’s sad because the work to put legislation forward
is a lot of work but it doesn’t end there. The work isn’t over.”

In addition to improving the understanding of working from home, the report also
offers guidance for governments to pave the way for decent work for homeworkers,
make them more visible and therefore better protected.

For poor industrial homeworkers, the report requires policymakers to undertake
concerted action on all fronts — from surveys and mechanisms to first identify
these workers, to combating informality by extending legal protection,
generalizing written contracts and access to social security, and making
homeworkers aware of their rights.

For teleworkers, whose main concern is the blurring between working time and
personal time, the report calls on governments to introduce a “right to
disconnect,” to ensure respect for that boundary.

However, one last thing remains that legislation cannot solve: Social isolation.
Berg said the real remedy to that woe, felt by all who work from home — beyond
associations in trade unions — lies in a healthy human exchange between managers
and employees.  

“There, you have an important role for managers and employers to have contact
with their workers in a good way, not in a ‘let me supervise you and make sure
you’re doing your hours’ way, but really more to reach out and see how they’re
doing,” added Berg, who is also author of “Labour Markets, Institutions and
Inequality: Building Just Societies in the 21st Century.”

As working from home is likely to take on greater importance in the coming
years, the ILO has renewed calls for governments, in cooperation with trade
unions and employers’ organizations, to heed the guidance of Convention No. 177
“and work together to ensure that all homeworkers — whether they are weaving
rattan in Indonesia, making shea butter in Ghana, tagging photos in Egypt,
sewing masks in Uruguay, or teleworking in France — move from invisibility to
decent work.”


Topics: United Nations International Labor Organization (ILO)

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