Minimum Wage and Salary

BACOLOD CITY, Philippines—The managements of various businesses will respect the order to implement a 15-peso wage increase in Western Visayas, Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Roberto Montelibano said on Wednesday.

CEBU, Philippines – The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board in Central Visayas has rejected the twin petitions of the labor groups demanding for P100 and P128 across the board wage increases to workers.

LESS THAN a third of the amount of daily pay increase that labor groups demanded have been approved by wage boards in two regions. In Southern Mindanao, workers are to receive a P21 increase in daily pay by August.

THE WAGE boards of Davao and Western Visayas have raised their regions’ daily minimum wage levels by P21 and P15, respectively, in the wake of Metro Manila’s own P22 increase which took effect on July 1.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration employees’ association yesterday urged the Aquino administration to increase the salaries of Pagasa personnel, particularly weather forecasters, to prevent them from leaving the country for better paying jobs abroad.

LABOR groups would expect an ugly response from the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) in Northern Mindanao in their petition for a P75 across-the-board wage increase aimed at “uplifting the lives of the workers.”

The nation’s labor force is it’s most productive assetRepublicans favor the minimum wage — the smaller the minimum wage, the better. — Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (1943-1953)

HONG KONG (AFP) – Hong Kong on Saturday passed its first minimum wage law, a controversial issue that has divided the city’s business sector and labour groups for more than a decade.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has warned commercial establishments in Metro Manila to comply with the new minimum wage rates for their workers or face sanctions.

Asian Migrants Coordinating Body (AMCB) spokesperson Dolores Balladares told GMANews.TV in a phone interview that Hong Kong’s Legislative Council shot down an amendment to the proposed Statutory Minimum Wage (SMW) that would have included foreign domestic workers.

The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) on Monday said it plans to question before the Court of Appeals the denial by the regional wage board to grant a P75 across-the-board wage increase for workers in the National Capital Region.

OFFICIALS of the Labor department and of the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) will meet today to start discussing guidelines for a prospective two-tiered wage-setting system.

After an increase in the wages of workers in Metro Manila was recently approved, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz over the weekend said there are at least eight wage petitions pending with other Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Boards (RTWPBs) nationwide.

MANILA, Philippines – Seven wage boards nationwide are discussing pending petitions ranging from P50 to P128.60 across-the-board wage increases, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said yesterday.

Business leaders yesterday called for a productivity-based wage increase. “We should correct the system on salary increase. And this should only be based on productivity and capability,” said Eric Ng, president of the Mandaue Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI).

THE NATIONAL Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) has denied the appeal of the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) to increase the P22 daily minimum wage hike for Metro Manila workers that took effect last July 1.

Rules Implementing Wage Order No. NCR-15 Basic

THE United Nations urged the Aquino administration to implement more poverty-alleviation measure, apart from creating more jobs if the Philippines is to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) yesterday released the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the order granting the P22 daily minimum wage increase for workers in Metro Manila, with businesses given 75 days from the publication of the guidelines to seek exemption.

THE TRADE Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) has asked the National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) to reconsider the P22 daily minimum wage hike ordered by its Metro Manila Board and reiterated the P75 increase the labor group sought.

MANILA, Philippines – Metro Manila workers asked yesterday the National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) to implement a P75 salary increase instead of the P22 increase recently granted by the regional wage board, saying that P22 is not sufficient to improve the living condition of ordinary wage earners.

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY — Northern Mindanao employers and labor leaders have remained firm in their positions at the final consultation of the regional wage board on Friday.

BAGUIO CITY – After the approval of the P22 daily wage increase for workers in the private sector in the National Capital Region (NCR), the Cordillera Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) here took back its earlier pronouncement that there will be a wage increase for workers in the region, saying that the desired…

SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, Philippines – The Central Luzon director of the Department of Labor and Employment is suggesting a daily minimum wage increase of about P10 to P12 in the region amid reports showing that prices of basic commodities have increased by this much since two years ago in his jurisdiction.

BACOLOD CITY, Philippines—A labor group in Negros Occidental is appealing to President-elect Benigno Aquino III to prod Congress to legislate an across-the-board wage hike of P150 per day for workers in the private sector.

MANILA, Philippines – The party-list group Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) will push for a P75-a-day legislated wake increase in the incoming 15th Congress.

A P22 INCREASE in Metro Manila minimum wages will take effect on July 1 after the requisite order was published yesterday by the local wage board.

CEBU, Philippines – The Associated Labor Union-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines is optimistic that the Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Board will grant its request for additional wage in Central Visayas after salary of workers in Metro Manila was increased recently by P22 per day.

A friend sought professional advice from me last week. A manager who reports to him had been griping openly about not getting what he believed were rewards that were due him such as a promotion and a pay increase. I asked my friend if the complaining manager really deserved a promotion and a pay increase—in…

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