THE COUNTRY’S unemployment rate slid to 7.2% in April from 8.0% a year earlier and 7.4% in the previous quarter, data from the National Statistics Office showed.
A total of 2.9 million jobless Filipinos were recorded out of the 39.7 million-strong labor force in April.
However, the underemployment rate, or the proportion of members of the labor force who wanted additional work, rose to 19.4% from 17.8% last year.
Employment stood at 92.8% or a total of 36.8 million workers. More than half of these (51.7%) were in the services sector. Agriculture was the second largest sector, accounting for 33.0% of the workers, followed by the industry sector (15.3%). — Cyril L. Bonabente, Businessworld
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
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