Jobless rate drops — Lowest in 18 years, PSA says
The rise in employment is attributed to the ‘ber months,’ when many businesses and retail stores hire more staff
Earth angel Marivel Requintosa, 57, a five-year Job Order employee of the Manila Department of Public Services, cleans the streets of Manila for P8,900 per month. Though she does not get a 13th month salary as a JO, as ruled by Presidential Decree 851 in 1976, this mother of three will keep working in this job — even use her own cleaning materials because the city government does not provide them — to send her kids through senior high and college. She hopes that someday she would be able to experience the privileges the plantilla workers enjoy. Here, she is spotted along Legarda Street in Manila on 6 December. (PHOTOGRAPH BY KING RODRIGUEZ FOR THE DAILY TRIBUNE)