Minimum Wage and Salary

By Ruben D. Torres IN a period of more than three years, the minimum wages of workers in the private sector have not changed. The last minimum wage adjustment was in December 2019, issued by the regional board of BARMM. For the National Capital Region, the last wage order was issued in November 2018. During…

by Catherine Talavera – The Philippine Star, 24 Dec 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The average basic wage and salary paid to the country’s agriculture workers declined by 1.6 percent last year, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed.

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by Xave Gregorio – Philstar.com, 11 Nov 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Changing the government’s response to COVID-19, hiking wages nationwide, ending contractualization and investigating corruption allegations against President Rodrigo Duterte are some of the policies that Bayan Muna chairperson Neri Colmenares and Kilusang Mayo Uno chairperson Bong Labog will pursue should they get elected as…

by Louella Desiderio – The Philippine Star, 3 Nov 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The financing arm of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has increased the maximum number of employees per company that can be covered by a loan facility to help firms finance the mandatory 13th month pay.

by Mayen Jaymalin – The Philippine Star, 22 Oct 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Around 1,300 establishments failed to provide their employees with the mandated 13th-month pay, according to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).

BY SAMUEL P. MEDENILLA, 10 Sep 2021 The construction industry, which accounts for some 4.2 million workers, is normalizing slowly amid renewed caution over a possible variant-driven spike in Covid-19 cases. Construction industry players said they would rather focus on preventing the spread of the virus in the workplace. In photo, workers are busy rushing…

by Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star), 17 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) said it would be difficult for most businesses, particularly micro enterprises, to advance the 13th month pay of employees amid challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic.

by Lawrence Agcaoili (The Philippine Star), 13 Jun 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Monetary authorities have vowed to keep a close watch on evolving wage dynamics and its ability to influence price movements as the country’s jobless rate improves with the ongoing recovery from the recession.

6 years ago today I raised my company's min wage to $70k. Fox News called me a socialist whose employees would be on bread lines. Since then our revenue tripled, we're a Harvard Business School case study & our employees had a 10x boom in homes bought. Always invest in people. pic.twitter.com/o7Ca7I4b7e — Dan Price…

by Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star), 30 Mar 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Workers in the National Capital Region (NCR) and other areas in the country are not getting any increase in their daily take home pay, at least for now.

By Ferdinand Patinio, 8 Feb 2021 MANILA – Some 1.6 million workers and around 30,000 establishments will benefit from the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) suggestion for a wage subsidy under the proposed Bayanihan to Arise as One Act or Bayanihan 3.

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by Paolo Romero (The Philippine Star), 10 Oct 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Senators and organized labor hit yesterday the proposal of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to allow distressed employers to defer the release of the 13th month pay to their workers.

by Gabriel Pabico Lalu, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 8 Oct 2020 MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is considering to let companies and businesses “distressed” by the COVID-19 pandemic to defer its payout of the 13th-month bonus of their workers.

By JON VIKTOR D. CABUENAS, GMA News, 27 Aug 2020 The average wage in the Philippines is among the lowest in the world as of August 2020, data compiled by e-commerce platform Picodi revealed.

By: Gabriel Pabico Lalu, INQINQUIRER.net, 25 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines’ average salary of P15,200 was ranked as among the lowest in 110 countries surveyed by think-tank Picordi.com.

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by Angelica Y. Yang/BM, GMA News, 20 Nov 2019 The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) expressed support for the e-payment of wages in formal accounts for private-sector workers in a joint forum with the labor sector on Monday.

by Elfren S. Cruz (The Philippine Star), 10 Nov 2019 The Philippines has the slowest real wage growth among the major countries in ASEAN. One reason for this is that in other countries and World Bank economists, real wage growth translates to increase in purchasing power and a more equitable and prosperous economy. Here in…

PHILIPPINES But the High Court says it cannot compel the government to implement the adjustment to the new salary grade because this needs another law for the budget Lian Buan, Rappler, 9 Oct 2019 MANILA, Philippines – After 4 years, government nurses finally won their case when the Supreme Court (SC) ruled that their salary…

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By Samuel P. Medenilla, Businessmirror, Jul 15, 2019 The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is set to conduct its stakeholder consultation next week for the ongoing review of the country’s minimum- wage setting scheme.

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by Consuelo Marquez, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jun 15, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has vowed to push for the granting of hazard pay and more benefits for the agency’s traffic enforcers.

By VANNE ELAINE P. TERRAZOLA, Manila Bulletin, Apr 30, 2019 Senators believed that the government should look into granting workers a “just” living wage, instead of just raising the minimum daily salaries.