Q23 In case you have answered Yes in Q22 above, please may you be able to comment below.

Answers:

Administration/General Policy

Make sure to review statistics of employment among these groups.

It is necessary to analyse, identify, and use the opportunities for people.

Guidelines.

Review labour laws to accommodate the pandemic.

More supportive and inclusive policies, universal basic income.

Develop mitigating plans for this.

Law enforcement.

Subventions (but not enough controlled in practice, especially among private sectors).

Introduce permanent infrastructure to deal with poverty and inequality.

I think society as a whole will need to re-configure to meet demands, retraining, new types of job, new ways of working, e.g., how to continue education, health, childcare, transports, essential services in a COVID world The government, national bodies might as well start considering what this new, long-term COVID world is going to look like now.

Do something about discrimination against specific racial groups

To be honest, I am not sure what actions may be taken. However, I feel that these actions will need to be innovative and feasible in the long term.

Extend the intended duration of various support programs and broaden access to those not receiving benefits now (some casual workers, temporary visa holders, international students).

Teach business people how to spot possible corruption trends and how to prevent it.

Plan a relief fund.

Improvement on wages.

Mass testing.

Social and economic relief.

Tax the rich and give money to the poor.

Stop political appointees as advisers.

Economic Sector/Industry

Incentive industrial production.

Open up certain industries and do away with ridiculous regulations (no alcohol/cigarette sales, sale of closed shoes allowed, but not open, no T shirt sales, but Golf shirts allowed etc!!!

Permit business with strict enforcement of usage of masks, sanitizers, and social distancing.

Allowing people to start working (e.g., vendors) but after solid training on H&S and under strict rules.

Re-opening the businesses ASAP.

Haul the economy and give monthly stipends.

Same as Q19, it should not be compartmentalised action, instead it should be global action that will stimulate the economy.

Retraining of employees to be equipped with transferable skills and IT skills to be ready for an uncertain world. Facilitation of IT adoption by companies to enable new ways of working or new business model.

Keep the healthy older worker with experience for coaching and mentoring purposes,

policy to relax debt payments.

Economic reforms.

Activate economy responsibly, reduce public employment and spending where it is not needed.

Our government steps to boost for the economy are very welcome for all the Indians.

Redraft economic policy to favour local corporations.

Do away with their racist policies and ensure that they form business compacts with big business and high net worth individuals to release cash reserves into the economy.

Social and economic relief.

Government taking steps to review the economic impacts.

Economic support month.

Same as Q19, it should not be compartmentalised action, instead it should be global action that will stimulate the economy.

Support employers.

Training people how they can become entrepreneurs and how to manage their small business successful. Provide finances to start small business and do audits to see are they managing and providing job opportunities for others. Have audits done and give feedbacks on trends.

Identify those at risk and clear guidance on RTW and safe work practices and social welfare contributions if not possible to RTW.

Job retraining programs, equity in access to financial support.

Loans and grants.

Prefer employment in essential services area, be local employ local and be state employ state.

Social Support

Strengthening social support to disadvantaged workers.

Provide more support to families with children to protect women’s employment, set up social support and empower welfare system to support vulnerable and fragile workers social safety net support; re-training workers who are at high risk to do other work; sick pay for all workers to reduce spread of virus.

This is now being done, i.e., people over 65 years old and with chronic diseases (diabetes, oncology, serious problems with the cardiovascular and bronchopulmonary systems) are completely relieved of work in state institutions with a fully preserved salary. In private institutions, everything is more complicated.

Social protection.

Social security schemes by Social Security Organization.

Social Protection and incomes Public Health Services.

A real compensation programs.

Unemployment benefits and compensation.

Introduce unemployment allowance, introduce social welfare policies.

Food delivery to unemployed families.

Grants and other benefits to be provided on need not race or friendship or political affiliation.

Direct future financial supports to those groups.

Financial help would have helped them.

Direct transfer of financial benefits to the workers and ensuring safe transport to migrant workers home town.

The government should prepare financial assistance, paying particular attention to older and disabled workers, who are in difficult situation and have bigger needs.

Financial support, development projects.

Financial support.

Improve financial resources for those in need.

Expedite financial assistance initiated by government and enforce lockdown measures equally all over the country

help targeted groups and finance costs from the rich and wealthy (companies).

Some income to lowest strata of workers.

Migrant Workers

Strong support for migrant workers.

Direct transfer of financial benefits to the workers and ensuring safe transport to migrant workers home town.

The biggest problem is with migrants, but there are also great successes in this environment (isolation, increased medical control, social benefits).

Others

Government is helping all employees to sustain.

Domestic violence has increased due to couple having to be locked down and home isolate and home school children. This has been very difficult particularly on working women.

Provide resources to manage long term health conditions (co-morbidities).

Awarding of tenders to appropriately qualified service providers for cleaning services. Currently there is corruption and government has not tackled the issue appropriately.

The German government is considering all/many of these aspects, but finite outcomes are not all certain yet.

We are all exposed in one way or another until certain factors are determined that make the care, diagnosis, and treatment of said pathology.

Age is not the criteria. Physical fitness and mental ability.