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
August 12 –
International Youth Day
“Empowering youth,
building generations!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
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August –
Aug 1-7 World breastfeeding week
Aug 9 – International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
Aug 12 – International youth day
Aug 19 – World humanitarian day
Aug 23 – International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition
Monthly Observances:
Farms Safety Month
Breastfeeding Awareness Month
Weekly Observances:
Aug 17-23: Made in the Philippines
Product Week
Aug 29-Sept 5: Rice and Corn Week
Daily Observances:
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Aug 9: National Indigenous Peoples Day
Aug 12: International Humanitarian Law Day
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