Ilkogretim Online - Elementary Education Online, 2020; Vol 19 (Issue 3): pp. 3185-3191 http://ilkogretim-online.org doi: 10.17051/ilkonline.2020.03.735484 Assistant Professor, Sushant University, Gurugram Research Scholar, Sushant University, Gurugram Assistant Professor, Sushant University, Gurugram Associate Professor, Sushant University, Gurugram Abstract Covid-19 has affected the employment sector all over the world including India. India was already going through a slow economic growth and that was even lowered by the pandemic situation of Covid-19. There is an increase in the level of unemployment and the people were going through huge financial crisis as they are forced to work with salary cuts, many of them have even lost their loss. This long standing economic recession at global and national level is leading the world towards unemployment, under employment and working poverty as well which is declining the population's income and the profit of the enterprises. A sample of 213 people from the different working sectors were surveyed to know the effect of Covid-19 in the employment in India and also how they are affected by Covid-19. Mean and t test was applied to get the appropriate results. The study concludes that that there is a significant effect of Covid-19 on the employment sector of India. KEYWORDS: Covid - 19, Employment, Unemployment, Economy, Lockdown, Recession, Job. Introduction In India, the occupational structure and the poverty is not that well equipped that it can go through the situation of self-isolation, social distancing, and lockdown during Covid19 pandemic. Investors fear the spread of the Coronavirus will destroy economic growth and government action may not be enough to stop the decline (Nandal, Nandal, & Anuradha, 2020) The employment in the organized and the unorganized sectors are experiencing a huge loss and it was predicted by ILO (International Labor Organization) that in India there will a job loss of almost 40 crores and it will be more than 200 crores all over the world. The economic condition of the country is so critical that it seems to be sinking with huge employment loss. The impact of Covid-19 is too disastrous that it has forced the migrant workers to rush back to their native places as they had lost their jobs and they do not have enough money for their food and shelter as well. The population of the migrant workers is so huge that they are contributing to unemployment graph of the nation to a great extent. They are out of their jobs, running out of food due to financial crisis and majority of them have no shelter as well. On the other hand, the extended lockdown situation has leaded the country towards great economic depression and scenario of massive unemployment where the population is facing job losses and salary cuts in the organized and unorganized sector both. Not only in India there is a huge effect of Covid-19 pandemic on the employment all over the globe. People are suffering with huge financial crisis and phase of unemployment. In their study Coibion et al. (2020a) found that the United State is facing much severe situation of job loss and unemployment as it was thought to be by their governing bodies and this can be judged by analyzing the increase in unemployment insurance claims and it was expected that it gives the low coverage rate for unemployment insurance regimes in this country. They had also calculated the severe fall in the rate of labor participation for longer period of time that goes together with increase in workers that were discouraged as they had stopped searching for 3185 | An Empirical Study of Covid on Employment in India Naveen Nandal Nisha Nandal Meenakshi Dhingra Kanika Sachdeva An Empirical Study of Covid on Employment in India