MANILA, Philippines — The country faces a postpandemic skills and employment gap that may leave 2.4 million skilled jobs vacant and unfilled if there are no significant reforms in education and training of workers.
House ways and means chair and Albay Rep. Joey Salceda issued the warning as he pressed policymakers to implement reforms in training and education to meet the needs of new and emerging businesses.
In his report entitled, “The coming skills and employment gap and the case for education and training reform,” he estimated that some 2.4 million skilled and well-paid jobs, or 6 percent of the labor force, would be left unfilled in the next decade “if education and training…
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