El Niño, nakaapekto sa employment situation ng bansa ayon sa PSA; patuloy na pagbuo ng dekalidad na mga trabaho, tiniyak ng NEDA
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00:00 Because of the effect of El Niño, the number of Filipinos with jobs in March was reduced by a fraction.
00:06 According to the data of the Philippine Statistics Authority,
00:09 from the 3.5% unemployment rate in February,
00:14 it increased by a fraction to 3.9% in March.
00:18 On the other hand, it is still lower compared to the unemployment rate in the past year in the same month.
00:26 National Statistician and Civil Registrar General Undersecretary Claire Dennis Mapa explained that
00:32 the decrease in agricultural production has an effect on employment.
00:38 In fact, according to their data,
00:41 the agricultural sector is leading in the largest decrease in employment,
00:47 which reached more than 300,000.
00:50 According to the National Economic and Development Authority, the construction of the Marcos Jr. Administration
00:58 of labor legalities and lower the rate of poverty in the country continues.
01:04 It reflects on our value production in agriculture and fisheries,
01:10 and the data is consistent with our employment and labor market statistics.
01:15 So yes, they were affected by the El Niño.
01:19 The first thing that, you know, the obvious would be the Agri.
01:23 In the past, there was really something like that because it is related to production.
01:28 So of course, when our production decreases, our operators also reduce their workers.