ANG mga alert level restrictions ang tinutukoy na dahilan ng pagtaas ng unemployment rate noong December 2021 kahit na yun dapat ang panahon na mataas ang employment dahil sa pagdiriwang ng Pasko at Bagong Taon.
Ayon sa inilabas na Labor Force Survey ng Philippine Statistics Authority noong Huwebes, 10 February 2022, 113,000 manggagawa ang nawalan ng trabaho noong December 2021.
Dahil dito umabot na sa 3.272 million na ang nawalan ng trabaho noong December 2021 mula sa 3.159 million noong November 2021.
Dahil sa utos ng gobyerno na bawasan ang bilang ng kapasidad ng mga establishments sa mga negosyo sa mga industriya, nagbawas ang mga ito ng mga empleyado.
Isa ang buwan ng Disyembre sa may maraming employment opportunity dahil sa mataas ang demand sa mga produkto at serbisyo na may kinalaman sa pagdiriwang ng Pasko at Bagong Taon.
Naniniwala ako na makakarekober ang labor market at tataas ang employment rate dahil sa pagsisimula ng campaign period bilang bahagi ng May 9, 2022 national and local elections.
Ayon sa labor group, nangangailangan ng mga campaign staff and personnel ang may 88,000 na mga indibidwal ang tumatakbo para sa national and local positions.
Subalit dahil sa alert level restrictions na pinairal ng gobyerno bilang pagkontrol sa pagkalat ng Omicron variant ng COVID19, nagbawas ang mga kumpanya ng mga manggagawa upang hindi malugi.
The coercive ‘no vaccine, no ride’, ‘no vaccine, no entry’, and ‘no vaccine, no work’ policies and the cost of testing on workers also contributed largely to the joblessness in the labor market.
However, I see a potential slight recovery of employment if local and national candidates hire staff and personnel to run their campaign and all those running for public office to purchase their campaign collaterals and services locally.
I urge national and local candidates to hire their campaign staff and personnel and spend their campaign money in locally manufactured products and services in helping create direct and indirect jobs.
In the campaign and election-related activities, I am seeing a rise in hiring of political coordinators and social media communications and multi-media and production personnel, digital and IT, transport and logistics, visual artists, and printing and design and food manufacturing services among others.
According to the Commission on Elections (Comelec), there are 260 candidates vying for President, Vice-President, Senatorial and Partylists national positions and 18,000 local aspirants running for district representatives, governors, vice-governors, provincial and city/municpal board members nationwide.
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