New Straits Times-May 1

Never has May begun with so much melancholy. Everywhere in the world, labor is in pain. With many businesses shuttered, the jobless list reads like a work-in-progress. Cash-strapped and with little custom, companies are finding it hard to keep the workers on their payroll. Airlines, hotels and retail outlets are badly mauled by Covid-19. Governments, too, are finding it hard to get capital and labor back to work, trying as they do by handing out one stimulus package after another.

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