The Scottish Parliament's COVID-19 Restoration Committee will meet with staff and repair customers of two Lanarkshire employment help organisations subsequent week.
Representatives will go to Routes to Work and Remploy in Airdrie on November 28 as a part of an inquiry into the influence of the pandemic on Scotland's labour market.
The committee inquiry focuses on "understanding the influence of the long-term sick element on economically inactive individuals, in addition to individuals who have chosen early retirement".
Though employment charges have recovered because the earlier phases of the pandemic, labour market inactivity charges stay excessive.
The UK is the one nation within the developed world the place individuals have continued dropping out of the labour market in important numbers.
To discover the explanations behind this, the committee will take part in a round-table dialogue with purchasers, companions and employers concerned in Routes to Work.
This service helps unemployed residents within the North Lanarkshire space entry employment, training and coaching alternatives.
Then the committee will maintain additional round-table discussions with purchasers of Remploy, which offers employment placement providers for disabled individuals and different teams deprived within the labour market together with lone mother and father and refugees.
Commenting forward of the go to, committee convener, Siobhian Brown MSP, advised Lanarkshire Reside : "Our committee has taken plenty of proof on the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on Scotland's labour market, and it is clear that long-term illness is among the predominant drivers behind labour market inactivity.
"Listening to instantly from frontline workers and repair customers in Airdrie and North Lanarkshire concerning the influence of the pandemic on employability and the labour market will present us with beneficial insights.
"Whereas Scotland's labour market has returned and improved on pre-pandemic ranges, there are various points which must be thought of across the influence of COVID on the well being of the workforce.
"With larger ranges of long-term illness and the unknown influence of lengthy COVID on the workforce, there's a lot for the committee to think about throughout its inquiry.
“This go to will assist us get to the core of the challenges behind Scotland's financial and social restoration.”
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