Chief of the Labour Migration Branch for the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in a new report declared that the pay gap between national and foreign workers was present way before Covid-19. She, also, added that the pay gap can be caused by other factors like education, skills, and experience. However, discrimination is the main reason behind it.
Women workers, mostly doing domestic work and social care, witness double discrimination in wages, as they earn less than national and immigrant male workers.
In high-income countries, immigrants usually face difficult and dangerous working conditions, with 27% of them working with temporary contracts and 15% with part-time jobs, mostly in agriculture, fishing, mining, quarrying, industry, energy, water, or construction.
In low-income countries, immigrants are usually skilled workers from high-income ones and usually come for temporary work. In this case, immigrant workers earn 17.3% more per hour than locals.
She added that women usually work in the sectors most affected by the pandemic, such as trade, industry, and the private health sector. She said that the organization expects stagnation in salaries that may have a greater impact on immigrant workers.
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