Bicol employment improves as PH economy reopens: DOLE
DOLE Bicol director Ma. Zenaida Angara-Campita (Screengrab from Laging Handa briefing) MANILA - Employment figures in the Bicol Region have improved as the country's economic reopening continues amid the coronavirus pandemic, a regional labor official said on Friday. Maria Zenaida Angara-Campita, Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) V director, said the region's employment figure has increased to 2.3 million as of July this year, from only 2.1 million in the same period last year. "From the labor force participation, it means that our workers who are actually in the formal wa...