Governments urged to give good jobs advice to low-paid during Covid-19 crisis

OECD  warns that people who have been most affected by unemployment during the Covid-19 crisis will also fail to gain access to the retraining and reskilling they have sought

OECD chief economist Laurence Boone. The OECD advises all OECD governments to expand and tailor career guidance services for the employed, unemployed, and economically inactive. File picture

Governments are being urged to expand their career guidance for adults specifically to offset the potential worsening of unemployment from the fallout of the Covid-19 crisis.

The report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said low-skilled or low-paid workers across rich countries, in particular, are being excluded from tapping advice from official sources.