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The Philippines is expected to remain a major supplier of caregivers, nurses, and domestic workers to aging economies in the Asia-Pacific region, although state-run policy think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) warned that Filipina migrant workers continue to face precarious...

High fuel costs driven by geopolitical conflict in the Middle East hammered the Philippine labor market in March, forcing hundreds of thousands of agricultural and manual workers out of job as operating expenses became untenable. Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Undersecretary and National...

To shield the Philippine labor market from the fallout of the Middle East conflict, the Marcos Jr. administration is ramping up job protection measures—a move that could further improve the country’s employment rate following February’s gains. Department of Economy, Planning, and Development...