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Global employment won’t recover before 2023: UN labour body

The ILO does not expect global employment to recover to pre-pandemic levels until at least 2023 [Ranita Roy/Reuters]

Global employment will not recover to pre-pandemic levels until at least 2023, with a projected shortfall in hours worked this year equivalent to 52 million full-time jobs, according to a report by the International Labour Organization (ILO).

While an improvement compared with 2021, hours worked globally are expected to remain 2 percent below levels seen before the arrival of COVID-19, according to the ILO’s outlook for 2022 released on Monday.

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