Articles 5 and 6 employment due to the adverse the EI Nifio phenomenon, Question No. 1. ILO Conventions to which the Philippines is a party effect brought by which visited the country in 1998 and again in 2000. On the other hand, the full brunt of the Asian financial crisis in 1997 and the global economic slowdown that begun in 2000 was 77. The Philippines is a party to the International Labor felt almost entirely by the industry sector. Organization Convention (ILC) No. 122 (Employment Policy Convention, in Employment 1964), ILC No. 111 (Discrimination and Occupation, 1958), CERD and 82. Employment growth was led by the service sector, which continuously posted an annual growth CEDAW. rate of 5.4 per cent. Its share in total employment expanded from 45 per cent in 1998 to 47.6 per centin 78. The Philippine Government submitted its implementation report on ILC 22 for the period ending August 2002. A response to the recommendations made by the ILO’s Committee of Expert (Committee) conceming the aforesaid report was likewise submitted. 2003. Meanwhile, the combined agriculture, fishery and forestry sector accounted for a substantial share in total employment, although its share remained stagnant at about 37 per cent. Industry employment however, grew at a very while its share slow pace (1.6 in total employment per cent) declined from 17.1 per centto 15.8 per cent during the same period, 79. The Philippine Government also submitted its implementation report on ILC 111 for the reporting period ending 31 August 2001. In response to the Committee's recommendation for the Government to address the issue of discriminatory practices relating 83. In the public sector, total government workforce stood at 2.37 million in 2003, registering an increase of only 295,000 workers (13.7 per cent) from 1998, Over the period, growth in public sector employment to “male preference” in the hiring of employees, the steadily declined from a high of 5.8 per cent in 2000 to Government moved for the amendment of Art. 135 of the Labor Code. Towards this end, various bills were filed before Congress to increase women access to training in employment and prohibit discriminatory practices such as the giving of preference to men in 1.8 per cent in 2002. Public sector employment even fell by 0.5 per cent in 2003. Employees in government owned or controlled corporations declined from 128,466 in 1993 to 94,970 in 1999, brought about by the privatization program of the government. A the posting of employment notices. little less that 87 per cent of the total government work force is on permanent status with guaranteed security of tenure. Question No. 2 2.a. Situation, level and trends of employment, 84. Employment continued to expand in April 2004 unemployment and underemployment posting a 3.6 per cent year-on-year growth or more 80. Over the period 1998 to 2003, the country‘s labor force expanded at a yearly average rate of 3.1 per cent or an average of 979,000 new entrant/ re entrants to the labor each year. Overall, the size of the country’s labor force increased from 29.674 million to 34.571 million over the six-year period. than a million (1.102 million) employed persons, as indicated in the Labor Force Survey (LFS) of March strong recovery of the industry sector (5.7 per cent). This is an improvement from the data of 2003 when Employment and unemployment employment recorded cent or 232,000). 81. The level of employment grew steadily from 26.631 million in 1998 to 30.635 million in 2003. Compared to the labor force, however, employment and forestry, accounts for 45.2 per cent of total employment in October 1990. In October 1999, the grew at a slower phase annually - 2.9 per cent or 801,000 additional employed persons. The growth was observed to be highly erratic - it suffered a slump twice in 1998 (0.7 per cent) and 2000 (-1.0 per cent), made a recovery in 1999 (4.2 per cent) and in 2001 (6.2 per cent) and posted a moderate growth in 2002 (3.1 per cent) and 2003 (1.9 per cent). The rise and fall in employment over the six-year period was closely tied to the fluctuation in agricultural 70 cure ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS HANDBOOK 2004, The growth resulted from the continued expansion in the service sector (6.2 per cent) and the 85. share points The of a near agriculture this to 39.1 sector zero sector, declined per cent. This by growth (0.8 per including fishery 6.1 could per have centage been a positive development except that the rate of decline was Slow when compared to other ASEAN countries. Also, workers who left the agriculture sector were not absorbed by the industry sector. Data showed that the share of the industry sector to total employment remained almost the same during the period. The increase was minimal at 0.6 percent, viz., 15. per cent