Tag: jobs crisis
Worst unemployment ever
Pebrero 5, 2021
PH labor market rebounding but not recovering – IBON
Disyembre 4, 2020
News | The labor market rebounding as lockdown restrictions are eased should not be mistaken as ‘recovery’. More than people returning to work, the term should mean returning to the same levels of employment as before. Recovery can only happen with substantial economic stimulus with sufficient government financial assistance or subsidies to workers affected by the pandemic.
Worst Jobs Crisis in PH History
Hulyo 25, 2020
Duterte administration’s recovery plans help the rich more than the poor
Hunyo 5, 2020
government’s supposed recovery plans are more concerned about supporting business profits than helping the mass of unemployed Filipinos. The finance department’s PH-PROGRESO and stimulus bills in Congress give considerable support to businesses while millions of affected families get token support at best.
Official unemployment figures understate historic jobs crisis
Hunyo 5, 2020
The unemployment crisis is actually even worse than official figures show. The 20.4 million real unemployed and underemployed today is the worst crisis of mass unemployment in the country’s history.
Unwanted Normalcies
Abril 12, 2020
The shady side of POGOs
Pebrero 26, 2020
BIRD FEED
Isn’t it weird that we absorbed offshore gambling operations here in the Philippines but in return we only got reports of criminality and non-remittance of taxes?
Job creation volatile, mostly of poor quality work
Setyembre 7, 2019
Research group IBON said that the recently reported job generation is mostly in poor quality work and confirms volatile labor market conditions rather than a strengthening economy. The group made the statement after the recent release of seemingly favorable employment figures and warned against complacency. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported an increase in the […]
