The Tamkeen Centre for Legal Aid and Human rights has released a new report on the impact of the coronavirus on workers in confined areas. The report reveals that these workers have lost some of their income because of the government’s partial or total containment decision to contain the spread of the virus.
Tamkeen reported that the first period of total confinement had a significant impact on workers in different sectors. According to the centre, workers in the low-income private sector are in a delicate financial and social situation; a possible new confinement would put these workers in an even worse situation and lead the local economy into an acute crisis.
As regards the monitoring of violations in these regions, the report identified the following cases: 54% of complaints concerned the application of the decree of defense/reduction of salaries, 24% on the deduction of days of confinement of the balance of leave (if the balance is exhausted, absences are deducted from wages), 11% on temporary stoppage of work and 10% on total and unpaid stoppage of work.
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