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Despite having fewer jobless Filipinos in February this year compared to the same period in 2021, Malacañang said that more needs to be done to allow everyone to return to work amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

The country’s unemployment rate steadied at 6.4 percent in February, translating to 3.13 million jobless Filipinos following the further easing of mobility and quarantine restrictions, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).

Malacañang welcomed the result of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) ‘s January 2022 Labor Force Survey showing the country’s unemployment rate decreased from 6.6 percent in December 2021 to 6.4 percent in January this year, saying this was due to the move of the government to ease Covid-19 restrictions.

Malacañang is optimistic that the country’s employment situation will improve in the coming months as more Filipinos are expected to return to work with the easing of quarantine restrictions and the reopening of economic activities.

The renewed surge in the number of COVID-19 cases in the country and the recent aftermath of Typhoon “Odette” may adversely affect the expected recovery in the country’s employment sector, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said.

The unemployment rate in the Philippines continues to decrease as it recorded its third lowest for the year following the gradual improvement in the country’s pandemic situation, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) believes that the increase in the number of unemployed Filipinos in September was only a “temporary setback” towards a continued and sustained recovery of the labor market.

Unemployment worsened after the government reimposed the strictest form of lockdown in August, leading to an increase of around 810,00 in the number of jobless Filipinos in the country, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported.

The highly transmissible Delta variant is posing “serious challenges” to jobs, the Department of Finance (DOF) admitted.

Sustained government efforts to ease quarantine restrictions and the continuous vaccination drives are expected to retain the improvements in the country’s workforce amid the health crisis, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said.

Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III has welcomed the latest Labor Force Survey (LFS) results wherein the country posted its second lowest unemployment rate in the time of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

The unemployment rate went up by a significant margin from March to April, but the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said this was expected due to recent circumstances connected to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

The rate of jobless Filipinos rose last April due to reimposition of strict quarantine measures along with the increasing working-age population joining the local labor force, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Tuesday, June 8.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is “encouraged” by the latest Labor Force Survey results, which, among other things, showed the lowest unemployment rate in the country since the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic began last year.