{"id":255981,"date":"2020-05-25T06:11:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T10:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=255981"},"modified":"2020-05-25T06:11:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T10:11:51","slug":"displaced-workers-due-to-covid-19-now-over-2-7m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/05\/25\/displaced-workers-due-to-covid-19-now-over-2-7m\/","title":{"rendered":"Displaced workers due to Covid-19 now over 2.7M"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_255984\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-255984\" style=\"width: 772px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20935030_1265303486931505_2575327725411006182_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-255984\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20935030_1265303486931505_2575327725411006182_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"772\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20935030_1265303486931505_2575327725411006182_o.jpg 772w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20935030_1265303486931505_2575327725411006182_o-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20935030_1265303486931505_2575327725411006182_o-768x955.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 772px) 100vw, 772px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-255984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data from the agency\u2019s Bureau of Local Employment (BLE) showed the affected workers has reached 2,757,640. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/laborandemployment\/photos\/a.927182317410292\/1265303486931505\/?type=1&amp;theater\">Photo:<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/laborandemployment\/\">Department of Labor and Employment &#8211; DOLE\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Monday said the number of displaced workers due to coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is now over 2.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the agency\u2019s Bureau of Local Employment (BLE) showed the affected workers has reached 2,757,640.<\/p>\n<p>The affected workers are from 102,607 establishments nationwide, as of May 23.<\/p>\n<p>It added that of the number of companies affected, a total of 80,891 establishments employing 1,927,308 workers had adopted temporary closure (TC).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 23,488 establishments employing 949,873 workers have implemented flexible working arrangements (FWAs).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout 1,772 establishments adopted both FWAs and TC involving about 119,000 workers,\u201d the BLE added.<\/p>\n<p>Among the affected Industries are: wholesale and retail, accommodation and food service, manufacturing, construction, education, financial and insurance activities, administrative and support service, transportation, and storage.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, DOLE figures showed that the National Capital Region (NCR) recorded the highest number of affected workers at 896,020.<\/p>\n<p>This is followed by Region 3, (Central Luzon) at 295,458; Region 4-A (Calabarzon), 286,630; Region 7, (Central Visayas), 209,033; Region 11, (Davao Region), 205,380; Region 10, (Northern Mindanao), 181,523; Region 9, (Zamboanga Peninsula), 121,786; Region 2 (Cagayan Valley), 90,983.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 88,474 workers were affected in Region 4-B (Mimaropa), Region 5 (Bicol), 79,564; Region 6 (Western Visayas), 73,525; Cordillera Administrative Region, 68,210; Region 8 (Eastern Visayas), 54,592; Caraga Region, 46,779; Region 1 (Ilocos), 32,020 and Region 12 (Soccsksargen), 27,663.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Monday said the number of displaced workers due to coronavirus disease &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":255984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,54365,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-instagram","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255985,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255981\/revisions\/255985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}