New incentives for businesses to train their employees are needed for economic recovery from COVID-19

COVID-19 has prompted changes in consumer spending patterns, business practices and working arrangements, many of which are likely to persist beyond the crisis with implications for the demand for certain occupations or skills. To date, workers in low paid occupations and sectors, and those that are younger, have suffered the most in the labour market, threatening to widen inequalities and damage social mobility into the future.