CALL CENTERS may hike prices of their services if the peso continues to strengthen, industry officials yesterday said.
“When the peso is strong, the industry is being hurt because our billing rate is in US dollars,” said Jojo J. Uligan, executive director of the Contact Center Association of the Philippines (CCAP) at the sidelines of a briefing.
While the industry is not yet unduly worried, CCAP President Benedict C. Hernandez said the peso’s gains are “something that we carefully watch.”
Price adjustments will have to be made “definitely, if needed,” said Mr. Uligan, but he clarified that these will not be immediate given existing contracts.
“The value proposition is … we need to be competitive otherwise we are going to lose some money and clients might leave,” he added.
The Philippine peso closed at P41.57 per US dollar yesterday, basically flat from Tuesday’s P41.56. The currency has been staying within P41-42 territory, stronger than the government’s P42-45 assumption. –Businessworld
June 2025
Philippine Environment Month!
“Action for Nature, for the Future!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government (NUG)
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Monthly Observances:
1 Jun – World Day of Parents
5 Jun – World Environment Day
7 Jun – World Food Safety Day
8 Jun – World Oceans Day
12 Jun – World Day Against
Child Labour
15 Jun – World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
16 Jun – International Day of Family Remittances
17 Jun – World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
20 Jun – World Refugee Day
25 Jun – Day of the Seafarer
27 Jun – Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day
Daily Observances:
First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
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