Assessment of Employees’ Livelihood During COVID-19: The Case of Hotel Industry in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Shiferaw Muleta (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wubrst Wondemeneh | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-01-22T10:39:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-01-22T10:39:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The novel coronavirus (COVID-19), since it was officially reported by the Chinese government in November 2019; spread out rapidly all over the world and caused large human life losses and economic crises. The COVID-19 wave has heated many countries. The occurrence of the pandemic in Ethiopia was reported in March 2020 and the Ethiopian government declared a lockdown and social distancing policy. Following the policy all types of learning institutions were closed, all public and private business and service sectors reduced up to 30% of their employees, all types of public transport services were restricted, passengers were kept isolated in quarantine for a period of up to three weeks (incubation period) and employees from public and private sectors were laid off and staying home. In this regard there was limited knowledge on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic prevention measures on the livelihoods of the employees of the hotels in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This study was therefore conducted to assess household income of the Hotels’ employees by comparing the monthly salary & tips they receive before, during and after COVID-19. Nine hotels: Getfam, Jupiter, Saromaria, Ambasader, Kaleb, Soramba, Jupiter, Best West and Sarem were studied. The assessment indicates three categories of COVID-19 impacts on monthly salary of hotel employees. The catagories include: Category 1: The employees received salary increment following the COVID19 pandemic by 8.7%, the salary increment ranged between Birr 150 – 15000/month, Category 2: The employees received a decreased in monthly salary during COVID-19 pandemic, and these were as 71.7% of the employees, and Category 3: The employees for whom there were no changes in monthly salary during and before COVID-19, and these were as 19.6% of the employees. The study confirmed low income families were heavily affected by food insecurity as a result of COVID-19. From the view of points of managing such pandemics in the future, the study recommends that the government should develop a policy for social security public fund that would be used for the case of pandemic when the government is forced to declare national lockdown measures for minimizing the wide and rapid spread of such diseases. With the subsequent advent of social security public funding such pandemics and epidemics could ceased thereafter to reach at mass mortality associated with large-scale losses of livelihood support. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/1425 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | |
| dc.subject | COVID-19 | |
| dc.subject | Hotel employees | |
| dc.subject | incentives | |
| dc.subject | salary | |
| dc.subject | income | |
| dc.subject | livelihoods | |
| dc.subject | food security. | |
| dc.title | Assessment of Employees’ Livelihood During COVID-19: The Case of Hotel Industry in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | |
| dc.type | Thesis |