Human Rights Measure

Among other measures, this package provides “support to households” including in the form of “[a]n Emergency Income Grant, to support those employees who have lost their jobs due to the pandemic and its fallout” and a “[t]ax-back loan scheme for tax registered and tax paying (PAYE) employees and self-employed individual persons who have lost income or part thereof or experiencing difficulties due to COVID-19 outbreak.” As part of this package, the Minister of Finance “call[s] on the business community and employers to avoid laying off workers at this point in time.”