MANILA, Philippines — The safe reopening of businesses is the only way to sustain employment and economic recovery efforts, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said Tuesday, after unemployment rate rose in April following the implementation of strict quarantine.
Bello said, “the DOLE (Department of Labor and Employment) is one with the economic managers in safely reopening businesses so mobility of workers is also facilitated in a less restrictive community quarantine levels.”
“This is the only way to sustain our employment recovery and economic recovery efforts,” he said in a statement.
According to the Philippine Statistics Authority, the number of unemployed individuals…
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