In this IUF guide on safe work during the pandemic, catering workers and their unions are provided with measures which will protect them from exposure to COVID-19.
The guide goes further to demand a post pandemic world where all catering workers are employed directly, have regular hours with secure employment and can access their rights to enjoy healthy and safe jobs with adequate wages, social benefits and good working conditions.
Millions of workers in the HRCT sector are suffering from the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Crucial to the rebuilding of the sector will be strong trade union voices guiding the policy development and implementation in order to ensure robust health and safety measures, income security, job security, gender equality including health care and sick leave, and above all trade union rights.
“COVID-19 does not discriminate. People of all ages, all nationalities, all ethnicities can contract COVID-19”. This is the message of a new infographic produced by the IUF Young Workers’ Committee. The leaflet, Worker Health and Safety during COVID-19, gives simple clear messages to assist food and beverage workers, irrespective of age, to work safely during the pandemic.
As COVID-19 continues to spread across the globe, I am constantly impressed by the determination of our affiliates to protect members and to fight for fair treatment of workers.