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DECLINE OF UNEMPLOYMENT, UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATES A GOOD SIGN – VILLANUEVA

Senator Joel Villanueva has welcomed the latest government data on the continued decline of unemployment and underemployment rates as a “positive sign” that efforts to generate jobs for Filipinos continue to matter. The April 2019 Labor Force Survey by the Philippine Statistics Authority showed that unemployment dropped to 5.1 percent from 5.5 percent while underemployment […]

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VILLANUEVA TO DUTERTE: SIGN THE TULONG TRABAHO BILL

Senator Joel Villanueva urged President Rodrigo Duterte to sign the Tulong Trabaho bill that seeks to provide free access to technical-vocational (tech-voc) education amid a recent report which revealed that educated Filipinos comprise almost half of the unemployed population in the country. Based on the JobsFit 2022 Labor Market Information (LMI) Report of the Department […]

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DELAY PASSAGE OF TRABAHO BILL IF IT WILL CAUSE WORKER LAYOFFS – VILLANUEVA

Senator Joel Villanueva Chair of the Senate Committee on Labor, Employment, and Human Resources Development said the passage of TRABAHO bill (Tax Reform for Attracting Better and High-quality Opportunities) should be delayed if it would only cause worker layoffs as admitted by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). During the Senate deliberation on the […]