MANILA, Philippines — Nearly three million Filipinos in the labor force were unemployed in June 2022, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported Monday. The PSA said the June unemployment rate was actually the same as that in May at 6 percent. “The average weekly hours worked by an employed person in June 2022 was estimated at 40.3 hours, higher than the mean hours worked obtained in May 2022 (39.8 hours) and in June 2021 (39.0 hours),” the PSA added. The PSA said this was lower than the 14.5 percent underemployment rate recorded in May 2022. “This translates to a decrease of 780,000 underemployed people from 6.67 million in May 2022 to 5.89 million in June 2022,” the PSA said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 08, 2022 04:16 UTC