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Données   March 2021 - The COVID-19 pandemic is having a profound shock on economies and labour markets around the world, and the impact of this crisis on women is stark. Women make up nearly 70% of the health workers on the frontlines against COVID-19, exposing them to a greater risk of infection. They also continue to do to up to ten times the amount of unpaid care work in households that men do, and face higher risks of economic insecurity. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, women were less active in entrepreneurship and the COVID-19 pandemic will likely exacerbate the gender gap in en...

AUGUSTA — Senator Chip Curry, D-Belfast, introduced Wednesday a bill to help self-employed workers and independent contractors in Maine by creating an unemployment system to help them during an economic downturn. LD 425, “Resolve, Directing the Department of Labor To Establish a State Unemployment Program for Self-employed Workers and Independent Contractors,” was the subject of a public hearing before the Legislature’s Labor and Housing Committee. “The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted serious gaps within our unemployment system. Traditionally, our state unemployment insurance prov...

In today’s news from the Capitals: WARSAW | BRATISLAVA. Polish President Andrzej Duda held a phone call on Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss the possibility of cooperating on vaccines. However, the call prompted a reaction from Poland’s former prime minister Donald Tusk, the current chief of the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), who called on Poles and Europeans not to be “naive” about the intentions of Moscow and Beijing. “I warn against such a naive approach to these very cynical players. I am talking about the Chinese and Russian authorities. And abo...

Some 300,000 more jobs are expected to be lost in Spain in 2021, mainly affecting small businesses, in a new blow to the already battered economy, warned the Spanish Association of the Self-Employed Workers (Asociación de Trabajadores Autónomos, ATA). EURACTIV’s partner EuroEFE reports. Since the start of the pandemic in March-April 2020, the sector has lost more than €70 billion, due to the impact of restrictions put in place to contain the spread of the virus, according to the latest barometer recently published by the ATA. Some 82% of self-employed entrepreneurs in Spain reported a s...

Millions of self-employed workers are due to be offered grants of up to £7,500 in next week's Budget, but the Chancellor is considering dropping the scheme from May. The Telegraph understands that people who meet the criteria can claim 80 per cent of average monthly profits up to a maximum of £2,500 a month. The terms for the fourth round of grants, run through the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS), are yet to be announced but have been pencilled in by the Treasury. The grants will cover February, March and April. The move reflects the fact that many self-run busines...