particularly those from poor households, worried more about tuition, gadgets, internet reliability, as well as future job prospects compared to their more affluent peers.81 In 2020, a group called Samahan ng Progresibong Kabataan (SPARK) monitored 20 cases of deaths among students in that school year that are linked to distance learning.82 The group claimed that of the total, 19 were students from Grade 6 to third-year college, and of the 19, 17 were suicides, while one death was due to electrocution and another was due to a vehicular accident.83 31. With fewer employment opportunities and more people competing for available jobs, young workers will find themselves competing with adults who have gained more relevant experience.84 The school-to-work transition has indeed become more difficult for the youth, especially with the current worldwide pandemic. Disruptions to education and training have profound effects on the youth’s employability and employment, such as in the form of increased household work burdens due to school closures, particularly for women, who, in the context of limited family resources, also have a greater possibility of withdrawing from school as their education is deemed less important than men’s.85 Disruption is also evident in the form of exploitative work of young children in the household, even child labor, due to reduced household income caused by the pandemic.86 Legal Framework 32. The ILO provides two (2) frameworks to define school-to-work transition. On the one hand, Framework I defines school-to-work transition as “the passage of a young person from the end of schooling to the first regular or satisfactory job.” On the other hand, Framework II defines it as “the passage of a young person from the end of schooling to the first decent or satisfactory employment.”87 Framework I only requires a regular or satisfactory job, while the stricter Framework II calls for decent or satisfactory employment. Regular employment merely provides for the duration of contract or expected length of tenure, whereas decent employment outlines a set of criteria for work to be considered decent (e.g., job security, entitlements, a monthly wage, etc.).88 Meanwhile, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) offers several indicators to measure school-to-work transition results, which include increased probability of employment, a better quality of employment, increased business performance, reduced time to find a job, increased ability to retain a job, and increased earnings or consumption.89 Doris Dumlao-Abadilla, Study weighs pandemic toll on students’ mental health, INQUIRER.NET, Jan. 2, 2022, available at https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1537244/study-weighs-pandemic-toll-on-students-mental-health#ixzz7WYVXF0Rf (last accessed June 21, 2022). 82 Ding Cervantes, Group assails DepEd, cites 17 student suicide cases, THE PHILIPPINE STAR, Oct. 28, 2020, available at https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2020/10/28/2052834/group-assails-deped-cites-17-student-suicide-cases (last accessed June 21, 2022). 83 Id. 84 Asian Development Bank and the International Labour Organization, supra note 65. 85 Id. 86 Id. 87 International Labour Office, ILO School-to-Work Transition Survey: A Methodological Guide: Module 1: Basic Concepts, Roles, and Implementation Process, at 12, (2009), available at https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/--ed_emp/documents/instructionalmaterial/wcms_140857.pdf (last accessed May 26, 2022). 88 Id. at 8. 89 United Nations Children’s Fund, supra note 47. 81 22