6 October 2020

Trade unions and newspapers are reporting that thousands of workers are losing their jobs and livelihoods every day because of the economic crisis caused by Covid-19... The aim of the Job Cuts Tracker is to monitor daily news reporting of company layoff announcements in 20 countries to count job losses, hold companies and governments to account, measure the human impact, and to gather meaningful data in real time...

Twenty countries were selected to give geographical, economic and population coverage:
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Russian, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, the USA...