The intervention will explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic across different economies and labour markets. It will highlight the critical determinants of employment losses and will describe the key features of various recovery plans that are expected to be slow, painful and uncertain. It will also describe policy responses that have been decisive in some instances but also highlight the fact that significant gaps remain. It will conclude by depicting possible elements of how the human-centred approach articulated in the ILO Centenary Declaration for the Future of Work might best be brought to bear on the extraordinary challenges of recovery that the COVID-19 crisis poses to the world of work.
