Filipino workers
8 of 10 new jobs are just part-time: PH struggles to create quality work as economy reopens
April 7, 2022
Latest labor force data show that the economy, despite reopening, is struggling to generate sufficient work. Additional jobs created are also mostly temporary, insecure and informal.
Unemployment and quality of work worsens
May 9, 2021
On 7th week of lockdown: 10M worker and informal earner households still waiting for emergency subsidies
April 28, 2020
NEWS
A month-and-a-half into lockdown, millions of workers and informal earners grapple in uncertainty as the government’s social amelioration program and Department of Labor and Employment aid are failing to reach them.
3 of 5 workers in Luzon will likely lose wages, earnings due to Luzon lockdown
March 18, 2020
NEWS
Potentially 14.4 million non-regular workers and informal earners, or three-out-of five employed persons in Luzon, are most at risk of lost wages and earnings due to the Luzon-wide lockdown. Government should take necessary measures to contain the spread of COVID-19, but these should be particularly sensitive to the plight of low income workers and their families.
Luzon lockdown threatens livelihoods of 11M workers, informal sector earners
March 17, 2020
NEWS
The Duterte administration’s declaration of an enhanced community quarantine over the whole of Luzon threatens to displace nearly 11 million workers and informal sector earners. While government is correct to take all necessary measures to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus, it is failing to do this in a way that protects the poorest and most vulnerable Filipinos.
The Need for a Substantial Wage Hike
December 1, 2019
Workers left behind in growing economy under Duterte administration
April 29, 2019
Wages of workers in the National Capital Region (NCR) continue to fall even as their growing labor productivity drives economic growth under the Duterte government. The mandated minimum wage is not even keeping up with the rising cost of living for ordinary Filipinos. Research group IBON said that keeping wages low distributes wealth unevenly and […]
Wage hikes under Aquino smallest since 1990s
May 1, 2016
Research group IBON said that unless the Aquino administration gives a wage hike before its term ends, it will have given the smallest wage hikes of any administration in the past 24 years. Wage repression is among the biggest reasons why recent rapid growth has been exclusionary and benefiting elites rather than the majority of […]
