The unemployment rate went up by a significant margin from March to April, but the Department of Labor and Employment said this was expected due to recent circumstances connected to the coronavirus d
isease pandemic.
“This had significantly affected the April 2021 LFS result as businesses and mobility of workers were again restricted to contain the spread of the virus,” Bello noted. “Similarly, the number of underemployed persons have slightly increased by 118,000 at 7.453 million from the 7.335 million in March 2021,” DOLE acknowledged.
“The current labor market condition may be improved by the timely rollout of vaccines for A4 categories of priority groups – the workers. We call upon all Filipino workers to get themselves inoculated with COVID-19 vaccines,” added Bello.
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