Department of Labor and Employment(DOLE)

September 16, 2019 Dear Mary Pilario, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Aug 30, 2019 03:58:18 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. Your Request You asked for Employment and Unemployment Rate of PWDs in Cebu City as of 2019. Response to Request Your FOI request is approved. I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested. Please note that we are only able to provide some of the information you have requested for as the attached information is based on administrative data and does not represent the whole population of PWDs in Cebu City. To date, there is no existing survey that could estimate the employment and unemployment rate of PWDs. Your right to request a review If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to Secretary Silvestre H. Bello III at [email protected]. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request. If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011). Thank you. Respectfully, John Christopher P. Lapiz FOI Receiving Officer