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by Nina LARSON Agence France Presse The coronavirus pandemic took a huge toll on global jobs last year, the United Nations said Monday, with the equivalent of more than a quarter of a billion lost. In a fresh study, the UN’s International Labour Organization (ILO) found that a full 8.8 percent of global working hours were lost in 2020, compared to the fourth quarter of 2019. That is equivalent to 255 million full-time jobs, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Jobless Americans who risked not receiving unemployment aid this week due to President Donald Trump’s delay in signing off on it will indeed receive the money, the Labor Department said on Tuesday. Congress in March expanded the US unemployment safety net as the coronavirus pandemic struck, creating the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) for freelancers and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) for the long-term unemployed but only funding them until […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Philippine Airlines will cut around a third of its workforce by the end of this year as part of an overhaul triggered by crippling coronavirus travel restrictions. The pandemic has devastated the global aviation industry, forcing airlines to seek government bailouts, furlough workers and slash jobs. “The collapse in travel demand and persistent travel restrictions on most global and domestic routes have made retrenchment inevitable,” the airline said Monday, announcing […]
by Deborah Claude and Marie-Pierre Ferey in Paris Agence France Presse Many workers’ lives have been abruptly upended by the coronavirus pandemic, as job losses in tourism, air travel, food and drink or other industries hit those both on fixed contracts and in the informal sector. From employees making a comfortable living, to others just scraping by, people around the world are confronting anxiety over how to feed their families and shame at being […]
by Thomas URBAIN Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — American families slammed by the coronavirus pandemic are turning more and more to food banks to get by, waiting hours for donations in lines of cars stretching as far as the eye can see. And with 22 million people out of work seemingly overnight as business after business closes under the Great Lockdown, these charities feeding hungry and scared people fear the […]
by Michael Mathes WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Republican opposition to expanding certain unemployment benefits was delaying Senate passage Wednesday of the largest economic rescue package in modern US history, amid fears that New York could be the next epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. The United States now has over 65,000 confirmed cases, the third-highest number globally behind China and Italy. About half are in New York state. “We still have the trajectory going up,” […]
(Eagle News) — The number of Filipinos who are jobless went down in the second quarter of 2018, a Social Weather Stations survey said. According to the SWS, adult joblessness was at 19.7 percent, or equivalent to 8.6 million adults. The pollster said this was 4.2 points below the 23.9 percent rate, equivalent to 10.9 million adults, registered in March 2018, but four points above the December 2017 rate. According to the SWS, the June […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) – The number of Filipinos without jobs went down to 18.9% or an equivalent of almost 9 million Filipinos in the third quarter of 2017, specifically from July to September this year. According to the latest survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS), this is an improvement from the 22.2% or 10.5 million jobless Filipinos in the second quarter of 2017, or from April to June 2017. The September’s […]
(Eagle News) — The latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showing adult joblessness at 22.9% in March 2017, which is 2.2% below the 25.1% last December 2016, is an affirmation of the significant strides of the Duterte administration in sustaining the country’s robust economic growth and making it inclusive. The government increased investments in infrastructure will usher in the Golden Age of Infrastructure through our Build-Build-Build campaign which is expected to employ millions […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — New US claims for jobless benefits continued to fall at the start of February, hitting its lowest level in three months, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The result confirmed the improving health of the US labor market and followed resurgent job creation in January. In the week ending February 4, there were 234,000 new claims for unemployment insurance, seasonally adjusted, marking 101 weeks below 300,000 and the lowest point since […]
MANILA Philippines (Eagle News) — According to the latest survey conducted by the Social Weather Station (SWS), nine million Filipinos are unemployed. This result came about despite the lowering of the country’s unemployment rate to its lowest level since 2010. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
The Social Weather Station revealed that 11.5 million Filipinos have no jobs in the first quarter of 2014.
