THE Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) said it continues to monitor profiled child laborers to facilitate the elimination of child labor in the country.
'The Marcos administration remains steadfast in prioritizing the elimination of child labor. Under Chapter 3 of the Philippine Development Plan 2023-2028, the target for the indicator 'number of child laborers' is zero,' Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma said in a statement on Thursday.
According to the Special Release on Working Children Situation for 2019 to 2021 published by the Philippine Statistics Authority posted on March 3, there were 1.37 million working children, 935,000 of whom were engaged in child labor.The report also identified the agriculture sector as the top industry with the most child laborers and Northern Mindanao as the region with the highest child labor incidence.
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