Minimum Wage and Salary

YEARLY in the run-up to Labor Day, various groups representing workers clamor for higher minimum wages. As we saw, the same thing happened recently, and the calls seem to resonate more with the government given the concerns about the President’s falling survey ratings and skyrocketing fuel costs. The pressure to raise wages is a perennial…

Manila, Philippines – Workers in Metro Manila will be granted a P22 cost of living allowance (COLA), the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said yesterday.

Manila, Philippines – The National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) reported yesterday that another regional wage board has granted a salary increase to minimum wage earners, this time in Eastern Visayas.

MANILA, Philippines — The American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (Amcham) has urged the government to adjust minimum wages to be more at par with the regional middle-income economies and undertake measures to make business costs competitive.

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) Friday insisted that the additional P22 cost of living allowance (CoLA) for minimum wage workers in Metro Manila is not tantamount to nothing despite not being included in the basic wage rate.

TAGBILARAN CITY, Philippines — Workers in Bohol may have to wait until legislators and concerned agencies finish the comprehensive review of the Labor Code, which must have been obsolete by now.

MANILA, Philippines – Aurora Rep. Juan Edgardo Angara said 1 of 5 firms in the country has not been following previous wage orders.

MANILA, Philippines—The P22-increase in the cost of living allowance of minimum wage earners may cause some small and medium businesses to fold up or explore other options to stay afloat, the Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) said Tuesday.

BAGUIO CITY, May 11 (PIA) – – The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) submitted a petition for an P80 increase on the daily wage of workers in the region during the Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Board meeting yesterday at the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Regional Office.

Security guard si Manuel Abasola. Minimum wage earner siya at nagtitiyaga siyang mangupahan dito sa isang napakaliit na kuwarto. Sa P10,000 buwanang sahod, P5,000 lang ang naiuuwi niya dahil sa mga kaltas at utang.

MANILA, Philippines –  Workers in Metro Manila are unlikely to get additional pay. Ciriaco Lagunzad III, National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) executive director, yesterday said they usually dismiss a petition to reverse a wage board’s ruling.

3 other regions may follow NCR’s lead MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said the P22 cost-of-living allowance (COLA) that the wage board in Metro Manila decided on Monday is already reasonable, meant only to cover the “supervening event.”

MANILA, Philippines (4th UPDATE) – Workers and employers have criticized the National Capital Region’s wage board for approving an additional P22 daily emergency cost-of-living allowance (ECOLA) for minimum wage earners in Metro Manila.

Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III stands amenable in having the proposed legislated wage increase tackled by Congress soon.

MANILA, Philippines—The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas said it was not opposing a P25 increase in the minimum daily pay as perceived by some labor groups.

The Employers Confederation of the Philippines (Ecop) sought a review of the current system of minimum wage-fixing by the tripartite partners — employers, workers and government in a proposal contained in the resolutions adopted by employers during the recently held 32nd National Conference of Employers (NCE 32).

PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino 3rd has issued two presidential decrees as part of compensation adjustments for government workers and state personnel.

MANILA, Philippines – Workers in Metro Manila will probably get no more than P30 increase in their daily take home pay.

MANILA, Philippines—Labor groups on Friday assailed employers’ announcement that they could only afford an P13 daily pay increase and President Benigno Aquino III’s refusal to certify as urgent a bill seeking a P125 across-the-board wage hike pending in Congress.

MANILA, Philippines – In the end, the National Capital Region (NCR) wage board decided to give more weight to the arguments of employers for a ‘just’ minimum salary hike for Metro Manila workers after exhaustive week-long public hearings.

EMPLOYERS were urged yesterday to accept the prospect of higher wages, with President Benigno S. C. Aquino III saying that a round of nationwide adjustments expected to start next week will “not be a threat” to growth.

MANILA, Philippines—The country’s top employers can afford to grant a pay increase to minimum-wage workers, President Benigno Aquino III said Thursday.

Metro Manila workers can expect no more than a P13.35 a day wage hike as, with the rising costs of production, this is the best that employers can offer, a president of employers’ union told Radio Inquirer Thursday.

STIPENDS instead of outright pay increases should be considered by wage boards as current economic conditions could soon improve, the head of an employers’ group yesterday said.

EMPLOYERS cannot afford to hike wages to as high as P75 daily, as proposed by some sectors, for it may lead to layoffs and closures of firms, according to the Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP).

MANILA, Philippines—The moderate labor group Trade Union Congress of the Philippines stood pat on its demand that the Metro Manila regional wage board give workers a P75 minimum wage increase.

MANILA, Philippines – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) yesterday warned that an across-the-board daily wage increase exceeding P25 per day could fan inflation leaving the central bank with no option but to further tighten its monetary policy stance to rein in inflation.

The petition for a rise in the minimum wage will be rewarded with an increase in the minimum wage. Signals from the government have announced as much.

METRO MANILA’S private sector workers can look forward to a daily minimum wage adjustment next week, a Labor department official yesterday said.

Metro Manila workers first to get pay increase PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino 3rd instructed on Sunday the Regional Wage Tripartite Boards to fast track the process for wage hikes, adding that tension between workers and management is building up because of the pending wage hike petitions.