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Unemployment at 6.4 pct in Feb, 3.13-M Filipinos jobless

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 07 08:39 PM

The unemployment rate in the Philippines settled at 6.4 percent for the month of February, the state statistics bureau's Labor Force Survey released Thursday showed. Read more »

DOLE says quarantine leaves only urged, not mandated

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 20 05:42 PM

The Labor Department clarified that it is merely appealing and not mandating employers to give paid leaves to workers who need to undergo quarantine. Read more »

Palace adviser backs DOLE on paid quarantine leaves

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 19 02:42 PM

Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion said he supports the DOLE's call for employers to give paid isolation and quarantine leaves. Read more »

Germany won't pay unvaccinated workers in quarantine

Reuters
Posted at Sep 22 09:03 PM

German health authorities are planning new rules under which unvaccinated workers would not receive compensation for lost pay. Read more »

Travel ban sa Filipino skilled workers pa-Kuwait posibleng alisin sa Agosto

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 02 08:19 PM

Inaasahang unti-unti na ring magluluwag ang Kuwait government sa kanilang travel ban para sa Filipino skilled workers na inabutan ng pandemya.  Read more »

Sectoral leaders: Digital shift, vaccines for economic frontliners key to reviving economy

Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 01 08:29 PM

MANILA — Members of the government's task force on job creation on Saturday said digital technology and COVID-19 vaccination are key in reviving the pandemic-battered economy. Read more »

Brazil registers record 14.4 million unemployed

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 01 12:50 AM

Pandemic-battered Brazil registered a record 14.4 million unemployed workers in the three-month period to February 2021, up two million from the year before, officials said Friday. Read more »

Philippines needs to drop 'flip-flopping' COVID-19 policies: Villanueva

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 13 12:21 AM

Senate Committee on Labor chair Joel Villanueva on Friday said the national government should avoid issuing "flip-flopping" statements before planning to reopen the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more »

DOLE says to distribute P13 billion Bayanihan 2 cash aid to workers

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 30 10:03 PM

The Department of Labor and Employment said Friday it would distribute P13 billion in cash aid to workers grappling with the coronavirus pandemic.  Read more »

14 South Korean delivery workers die because of pandemic overwork - union

Ju-min Park, Reuters
Posted at Oct 22 10:41 PM

Fourteen delivery workers in South Korea have died of overwork this year because they had to handle a sharply higher volume of packages due to the coronavirus pandemic, with the latest fatality this week, a union official said. Read more »

Fearing loan sharks and slavery, Indian workers ask gov't for cash aid

Anuradha Nagaraj, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Oct 06 10:17 PM

CHENNAI, India - Informal workers in India urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a petition on Tuesday to grant emergency financial aid to protect them from loan sharks and labour traffickers as the pandemic erodes their incomes.   Read more »

Gov't says to put up one-stop shop for pandemic job hunters, retrenched workers in NCR

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 16 02:28 PM

The government will put up a one-stop shop for job seekers and retrenched workers in Metro Manila, including those from ABS-CBN Corp, Malacañang announced Thursday as jobs of millions of Filipinos remain at risk due to the coronavirus pandemic. Read more »

1,250 workers stranded in Boracay, says official

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 07 12:20 PM

Some 1,250 workers are stranded in Boracay Island, said Malay town acting Mayor Frolibar Bautista on Thursday. Read more »