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联合国国际劳工组织近日发出警告，新冠肺炎疫情造成的就业损失远超先前估计，全球在今年第二季度损失了4亿个全职工作，美洲形势尤为严峻。同时，新冠肺炎疫情还加剧了职场性别不平等。 A worker passes a specimen bag to a motorist at a drive-in COVID-19 testing site at Crenshaw Christian Center amid the coronavirus pandemic on July 1, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. [Photo/Agencies] The coronavirus pandemic is expected to have resulted in a 14% drop in global working hours in the second quarter of 2020, the International Labour Organization has said. 国际劳工组织近日称，2020年第二季度，新冠肺炎疫情预计将导致全球工作时间减少14%。 The United Nations’ labor agency said this updated fall in working hours was the equivalent of 400 million full-time job losses globally in the second quarter, based on a standard 48-hour working week. 联合国国际劳工组织称，按每周工作48小时的标准计算，最新统计的工作时间降幅相当于第二季度全球减少4亿个全职工作岗位。 This marked a “sharp increase” on the 10.7% fall in working hours, or 305 million job losses, that the ILO forecasted for that period, in its previous report on the impact of Covid-19 on the labor market, published in May. 国际劳工组织5月份发布的关于新冠肺炎对劳动力市场影响的报告预测称，今年第二季度全球工作时间预计减少10.7%In this fifth edition of its “Covid-19 and the world of work” monitor, the ILO said that the Americas were the most affected region, with an estimated 18.3% drop in working hours, or 70 million full-time jobs. | 
