‘If Seasonal Agricultural Workers Cannot Find a Job, Child Labor will Increase’ - Bianet English
With the support of International Labor Organization (ILO), the Development Workshop has prepared a report regarding the potential impacts of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on mobile agricultural workers and their children as well as on the plant production in Turkey.
The measures that need to be taken to prevent the spread of the disease and to protect the health of seasonal mobile agricultural workers increase the costs. Workers and farmers do not seem likely to afford them. However, there are no accepted offers for alternatives, either. Thus, it is safe to say that seasonal mobile agricultural workers, whose working conditions were already very difficult and wages meagre, will now have difficulties in even finding these jobs during the outbreak and when they do, they will earn less.
These circumstances might mean that some workers will not participate in seasonal plant agriculture, which will mean an additional poverty for the ones who do not participate in work.
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