Department of Labor and Employment(DOLE)

January 27, 2023 Dear Rona Ramos, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Jan 25, 2023 04:35:55 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. Your Request You asked for Statistics of workers affected by COVID-19 pandemic lockdown per industry/sector and Regions. Response to Request Your FOI request is approved. I enclose a copy of the information you requested. The attached is based on the establishment report submitted through the DOLE online Establishment Reporting System (ERS). Kindly refrain from disseminating the actual document. 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 Bienvenido E. Laguesma at electronic mail address osec@dole,gov,ph. 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, Grace A. Baldoza FOI Receiving Officer