The Covid Economy: The Essential Workforce - BBC Newsnight

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Has Covid-19 made us see work differently?

The biggest unemployment crisis for decades will raise long-term questions about what changes we want to see in our labour market after the pandemic.

Business Editor Helen Thomas reports.

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When the state starts deciding who's essential and who isn't, the public need to start worrying

shirley

"I worry the office is dead" - of course you do luv because your business is making crappy office space. Many people and companies have found out they can work perfectly well from home, not face crowded and expensive public transport, and sky high rent for office space and utilities.

nathaniliescu

I think there is a leadership crisis. That's why companies go under when they've existed for decades and should easily ride the storm. If you can sack 10000 staff and run a business effectively then why did you need the 10000 in the first place.

jeffrejr

I worked at a warehouse before lockdown I was promised a contract and passed my probationary period but ended up without one and exclued from the furlough scheme I went back after lockdown and lost my job to a knee injury at work we were unstaffed and over worked. What is being done to help? extra universal credit. This isn't the solution providing and incentivising training for the jobs that are going to be most essential throughout and after this pandemic would be a good step in beating it and helping people who want to work.

conred

I've been working twelve hour shifts right through the whole pandemic so far.

My holidays were delayed due to my employer postponing all holidays during the lockdown period and therefore I had to attend work right from one set of holidays in January through to now.

This has meant that we have all accumulated so many holidays that now we are allowed to take holidays again, everyone is trying to get the same time off to fit in thier holidays and we don't have enough staff.

I work in heavy industry where attendance is necessary.

Yet despite this, like many people deemed as essential workers during the pandemic, I get paid little over the minimum wage.

My point is, after all this is over, we need to take a long hard look at the value that we place on certain people and jobs they carry out. People like myself who have to attend, can't be furloughed, are classed as essential by the government need to start to be valued more and given a fair wage in recognition of thier essential status whilst at the same time looking at the highly paid office people who get to sit at home on furlough 80% doing nothing but still getting much more income than myself for going out, doing an essential job and being it at risk of catching corona on a daily basis.

A dramatic realignment is needed and those in all sectors that have worked throughout need to be recognised.

stuartfitch