“…An element s of a semigroup S with identity is called unit-regular if there exists a unit u ∈ S such that sus = s. A unit-regular semigroup is a semigroup with identity in which every element is unit-regular. The notion of unit-regularity, which was introduced by Ehrlich [8] within the context of rings, has consecutively received wide attention from many semigroup theorists (see e.g., [1,2,3,7,9,10,18,19,27]). In 1980, Alarcao [7, Proposition 1] proved that a semigroup with identity is unitregular if and only if it is factorizable.…”