"Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, a range of measures are being taken at EU and national level in different domains to protect public health, the economy but more importantly workers and their jobs and their income. Exceptional circumstances ask indeed for exceptional measures.
However, first signs already indicate that certain governments use the Covid-19 crisis, like it was done in the framework of the 2008 economic crisis, to “temporarily” undermine and curtail human rights in general and workers and trade union rights in particular. ..."

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