MANILA – Ipinahayag ng Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) noong Miyerkules na ang dalawang linggong enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) sa National Capital Region (NCR) ay nakaapekto sa 90,000 manggagawa ng 3,000 mga kumpanya.

Ayon kay DOLE Assistant Secretary Dominique Tutay, ang mga apektadong manggagawa ay maaaring permanenteng nawalan ng trabaho o nagtatrabaho sa ilalim ng flexible work arrangement.

“My report to Secretary Silvestre Bello III yesterday, we have about 3,000 establishments who were reported to be affected by the current quarantine level. It involves about close to 90,000 workers so when we say affected that could be either be retrenched or they lost jobs permanently and some are undergoing flexible work arrangement and temporary closure,” sinabi niya sa isang virtual forum.

Isinaad ni Tutay na ang bilang na ito ay hindi kasama ang 250,000 katao na naapektuhan bago ang ECQ sa Metro Manila mula Agosto 6 hanggang 20.

“You can add the figure to about 255,000 who were already affected prior to the ECQ who were permanently displaced and I think we have reached one million when it comes to the temporarily closure and undergoing flexible work arrangement,” aniya.

Nauna nang tinantiya ng mga awtoridad na ang lockdown ay makakaapekto sa 300,000 hanggang 400,000 katao.

“You have to note that our figure is only formal sector workers. It does not include the informal sector workers and also repatriated OFWs (overseas Filipino workers) who are joining the ranks of the unemployed,” wika ni Tutay.

Ang Metro Manila ay nasa ilalim ng modified ECQ hanggang Agosto 31.