Better Work Haiti COVID-19 Business Impact Survey
- Of 30 responding managers, 17 reported partial operation and a third reported that the enterprise was not operating.
- Nineteen factories (63 percent) reported a high negative financial impact on revenues and sales.
- Managers in 53 percent of factories had suspended part of the workforce, and 12 factories (40 percent) had dismissed or planned to dismiss workers.
- The most cited challenges were negative effects on business partners (89 percent) and lower demand (81 percent).
- Sixty-two percent of factories had received no government support, and 56 percent had no written business continuity plan.
Better Work Haiti and the ILO Bureau for Employers' Activities (ACTEMP) in Costa Rica emailed a survey to management of all garment-manufacturing enterprises in Haiti and received thirty responses between April 7 and May 9, 2020. About half of the responding firms employed between 501 and 2,000 workers before the pandemic.
Seventeen of the 30 firms were only partially operating and about a third were not operating. Nineteen factories (63 percent) reported a high negative financial impact on revenues and sales, 53 percent had suspended part of the workforce and 12 factories (40 percent) had dismissed or planned to dismiss workers. The most cited challenges were the effects on business partners such as buyers (89 percent) and lower demand (81 percent). Sixty-two percent of factories had received no government support.
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2020, Better Work Haiti COVID-19 Business Impact Survey, https://betterwork.org/wp-content/uploads/business-impact-survey-high-res.pdf
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