Minimum Wage and Salary

PRIVATE sector employees in Metro Manila will get a wage increase next week and those in the provinces within the month, President Benigno Aquino III said Sunday.

MANILA (Updated 1:32 p.m.) — President Benigno Aquino III urged the regional tripartite wage board on Sunday to fast-track the deliberations on proposed wage increase so that all regions will benefit from it next month.

MANILA, Philippines – The government plans to offer workers a package of non-cash benefits, including expanded social and health insurance, to head off a large wage rise as it tries to manage inflation pressures and public anger at rising costs.

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A LABOR DAY benefits package is still being finalized by Malacañang but will likely include assistance not just for workers but other vulnerable sectors of society, officials yesterday said.

DEPARTMENT of Labor and Employment (Dole) Zamboanga Peninsula Regional Director Ponciano Ligutom said there is no “supervening condition” for a new wage hike in the region.

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A counterpart bill to press for a P125 daily across-the-board legislated wage increase has been made by an opposition member of the Senate’s majority bloc.

When workers’ income can’t make both ends meet, or when their take home pay can no longer take them home, something’s got to give. Often, the common view takeb by sectors is to increase the wages. This is often a myopic view and usually results in unintended adverse consequences to the intended beneficiaries.

CEBU, Philippines – The Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines yesterday asked the Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Board to grant them a P100 across-the-board daily wage increase for the private workers in Central Visayas.

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MANILA, Philippines – Even if some sectors believe that the P125 minimum-wage hike is “justifiable,” the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) said wage hikes in the Philippines have not breached the P27 mark in more than two decades.

ILOILO CITY—Scrap, suspend or reduce taxes on petroleum products but don’t raise wages.

AN assessment of the economic impact caused by the oil price increases in Central Visayas will be included in the review for wage hike petitions presented by labor groups, the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board in Central Visayas (RTWPB-7) said yesterday.

THE Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) called on organized labor to go slow on its clamor for a new round of wage increases amid pronouncements of a “supervening condition.”

UNFAZED by the dismissal of a P124 wage increase petition of a labor group on Wednesday, another labor group is set to file a petition for a P75 increase in the minimum wage for Cebu workers next week.

MANILA, Philippines—The regional wage board in Western Visayas Thursday joined that of Metro Manila’s in declaring that a “supervening condition” existed in the area which merited increases in wages or nonwage benefits of workers, a ranking labor official said Thursday.

MANILA, Philippines – Pay hikes for Metro Manila workers could be announced as early as next month as a “supervening condition” has been declared by wage officials.

MANILA, Philippines –  Workers in Metro Manila may receive a much-awaited increase in their take-home pay, but this can happen only after Labor Day.

Labor Day happens in about a fortnight. It’s supposedly a day to celebrate the contributions of workers to the advancement of societies all over the world and commemorate gains the labor movement has won through the years. Of course it is also a day meant to put the spotlight on the fate of workers and…

MANILA, Philippines – The non-stop increase in fuel prices now warrants a review of the current minimum wage, majority of the members of the National Capital Region (NCR) wage board voted on Tuesday.

THE labor sector, through the National Congress of Unions in the Sugar Industry of the Philippines-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (NACUSIP-TUCP), filed a P99 wage hike petition before the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) in Western Visayas.

Manila, Philippines – Another Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) has declared a “supervening condition” that could pave the way for the grant of a salary increase in other areas of the country.

THE Associated Labor Union-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (ALU-TUCP) is set to file a petition for another round of wage increase in Northern Mindanao before the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB).

MANILA, Philippines-About 600,000 fish workers in the Philippines who work in commercial fishing vessels and aquaculture farms are not covered by Manila’s minimum wage. Worse, majority of them get very low wages for an average of 20 hours of work a day.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said yesterday there is a need to increase the minimum wage to help workers but said it should not be P125 per day.

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The official Communist Party-controlled trade union in Beijing has scored a coup in its collective bargaining campaign against foreign-invested enterprises, according to reports from Chinese state media.