PH suffers worst cut in work hours in ASEAN during pandemic – report

Workers in the Philippines suffered the worst job displacements across Southeast Asia during the pandemic, the International Labor Organization said Friday.

In contrast, lost working hours in Thailand, Brunei, and Laos only stood at the 4% level, according to the report titled“These differences are driven by several factors, including the ability to control the pandemic, as well as the stringency and duration of lockdown measures implemented to curb the spread of the pandemic,” the ILO said.

“Roughly half of these working hour losses is caused by people losing their jobs, and the other half is caused by people that might have kept their job but had to reduce simply because of different reasons –– because they were not able to work given the health restrictions put in place, or because there was no demand and other reasons as well,” Viegelahn said in a Friday press briefing.

Across ASEAN, ILO said some 9.4 million people are still expected to suffer from shorter working hours or unemployment this year, slightly better than the 10.6 million who suffered the blow of COVID-19 restrictions last year.

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