A conference in Dublin will examine essential workers' job quality and wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic. The event is entitled 'Working in Essential Services: Lessons from Working during Covid-19’ and will be held in the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School.
It will explore whether essential workers possess the skills and resilience to undertake such a role again in the event of another health emergency.
Experts will also ask how we can reduce risks for essential workers in the future. The findings from the UCD Working in Ireland Survey provide the backdrop for the symposium.
The study, which was released in October 2023, found female essential workers' health and wellbeing were substantially more impaired than that of male workers during the Covid-19 pandemic.