Philippines jobless rate up 3.9% in March

MANILA: The Philippines’ unemployment rate jumped to 3.9 per cent in March, from 3.5 per cent in February, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Wednesday (May 8).

That means there were two million Filipinos who were either jobless or out of business in March, up from 1.8 million in the preceding month, results of a nationwide survey of 11,114 households showed.