PH employment rate up 96.4% in July

THE country’s employment rate rose by 96.4 percent or 43 million Filipinos this year from 41 million in 2018, according to the latest round labor force survey of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).

Of those employed, 5.9 million or 13.9 percent are underemployed, or those who expressed the desire to have additional hours of work in their present job, to have additional jobs, or to have a new job with longer working hours.