GENEVA, April 1 (Xinhua) -- The Swiss government on Wednesday said that it has decided to provide additional financial package aimed at supporting the small independent businesses, especially the self-employed people, during the current COVID-19 crisis. Guy Parmelin, Swiss minister of economic af...
On October 7, 2020, National Human Rights Commission [NHRC] published its “Advisory on Rights of Woman in the context of Covid-19” on which it gave recommendations about sex workers. The recommendation includes providing aid and relief to sex workers, particularly lactating mothers. The Maharas...
$120 billion to provide workers receiving unemployment benefits a $300 per week supplement from Dec. 26 until March 14, 2021. This bill also extends the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program, with expanded coverage to the self-employed, gig workers, and others in nontraditional employmen...
The relief package — which, if passed, would be the first since the CARES Act in early spring —extends expiring aid programs and increase weekly benefits by $300. Among other significant measures, the bill would let states waive a requirement that self-employed, freelancers, gig workers a...
interview, and industry. We find that across racial minority groups, the hours lost by the self-employed were substantive during the pandemic, signaling that Brazilian policymakers should pay greater attention to the relief funds allocated to and policies geared towards self-employed racial minorities....
- Unemployment benefits for millions of Americans struggling to make ends meet were set to lapse at midnight Saturday night unless President Donald Trump signed an end-of-year COVID relief and spending bill that had been considered a done deal before his sudden objections. Trump’s refusa...
self-employed in part-time employment in full-time employment unable to work due to disability homemaker/full-time parent unemployed and seeking work retired I don’t live with a partner D3. How many children are living with you in the household? D3a Please specify below the age(s) of you...
PPP Loansprovide employers with a loan amount equal to 2.5 times their average 2019 payroll (limited to $100K per employee). The loan is forgivable to the extent the loan proceeds are used for payroll in the 8 weeks following funding. Self-employed individuals qualify and ...
Eleven studies employed a qualitative design, with all of these studies finding some evidence of a negative impact on child mental health/well-being, but more than half (55%) of these studies reported mixed results. Fifty studies employed a quantitative methodology, with most of these finding ev...
• Income compensation to alleviate the burden for employees on permanent and fixed term contracts as well as self-employed workers who are not in the Social Security system or other people affected by the COVID-19. Rights and permissions ...