About 75 percent of Sri Lanka’s workforce or 1.5 million employees are facing a high risk of falling in to poverty, with 68 percent in informal employment amid a Coronavirus crises, a survey done by a Colombo based think tank said.

Institute of Policy Studies in Sri Lanka said a68 percent of the total employed population in Sri Lanka is in informal employment, employed under low wages or precarious jobs.
 
“These jobs lack the basic protection that formal jobs provide, including social protection coverage and paid leave,” an IPS research note said.

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