THE government is studying granting a wage increase before July, presidential spokesman Ramon Carandang said Friday.
The government will implement a fuel subsidy for public transport in two to three weeks, he said, but scrapping the value-added tax on oil is not an option.
The workers’ group Trade Union Congress of the Philippines petitioned for a 75-peso increase in the minimum wage in Metro Manila on March 7, saying workers needed the adjustment as a result of increasing oil and food prices.
The petition is pending as the wage board is still deciding if a “supervening factor,” like an unusually large increase in the prices of basic commodities, justifies it.
Meanwhile, the central bank said Friday it might review its policy rates if the inflation outlook “becomes more unfavorable,” and if the government approved an increase of more than P25 in the minimum daily wage.
While the central bank allows the peso to help ease inflation pressures, the nation’s main policy tool remains the overnight borrowing rate, according to Deputy Govenor Diwa Guinigundo. The remittances from overseas had been boosting the peso, and “that helps us manage inflation,” he said. Bloomberg
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7 Sept – Intl Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies
8 Sept – International Literacy Day
12 Sept – United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation
15 Sept – International Day of Democracy
16 Sept – International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
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21 Sept – International Day of Peace
26 Sept – International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
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National Peace Consciousness Month
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World Clean and Green Week
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