Southeast Asia’s migrant fishery workers have been excluded from government support programmes launched in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, exacerbating their hardship during the crisis, the United Nations labour agency said on Tuesday.
Governments have overlooked migrant workers in the fishing and seafood processing industries, treating them as “out of sight, out of mind” with policies that limit their movement and provide little oversight of working conditions, according to a report released by the International Labour Organization (ILO).
