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The chair of the House labor and employment committee urged the government to make training and upskilling programs more easily accessible to Filipinos as a countermeasure to underemployment. This as the country’s underemployment rate increased even as the number of unemployed Filipinos fell to its second lowest rate since April 2005 or nearly two decades […]
Senator Joel Villanueva has welcomed the latest government data on the continued decline of unemployment and underemployment rates as a “positive sign” that efforts to generate jobs for Filipinos continue to matter. The April 2019 Labor Force Survey by the Philippine Statistics Authority showed that unemployment dropped to 5.1 percent from 5.5 percent while underemployment […]