Bicol private workers get P23 wage increase

Published by rudy Date posted on March 17, 2012

THE Department of Labor and Employment announced that private sector workers in Bicol Region will be receiving additional P23 in their monthly wages after the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board approved the hike.

In a convention in Club Filipino in Greenhills, San Juan yesterday sponsored by the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), Department of Labor and Emplyment Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said that the RTWPB issued Wage Order No. RB05-15 that provides for the increase of between P3 to P23 in daily wage for private sector workers in Region 5.

Baldoz added that the wage order will be effective 15 days after it was published in newspapers with general circulation in the region.

Meanwhile, Albay’s economy gets a boost this year with an additional P332 million as share of some 19,767 indigent families from four towns and one city, the latest enrollees to the government’s Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT), more popularly known as 4Ps or Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program.

Albay Gov. Joey Salceda said the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is set to release an initial P 55.4 million, equivalent to two months allocation, through the Land Bank of the Philippines, directly to the indigent families at P1,400 each per month.

Scheduled to receive their P1,400 monthly CCT funds are the municipalities of Camalig, 3,130 families; Guinobatan,3,946; Oas, 3,779; Tiwi, 2,528; and Legazpi City, 6,384 families, for a total of 19,767 family beneficiaries. –Raffy Ayeng, Manila Times

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