70 pct of Bangladesh's garment workers fear losing jobs
Published 02 Oct,2020 via The Financial Express - Seventy per cent of the garment workers surveyed fear losing their jobs because of the coronavirus outbreak, according to a latest report.
It also revealed that 92 per cent of workers reduced their expenses while 60 per cent did not save or use their savings to pay for food to cope up during the pandemic.
"Overwhelmingly 70 per cent of the surveyed workers are very worried or somewhat worried about workers in their factories who lost their job or might lose their job because of the pandemic," said Dr Sanchita Banerjee Saxena, director of Subir and Malini Chowdhury Centre for Bangladesh Studies at the University of California.
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