Minimum Wage and Salary

MORE than 2 million workers will benefit from the P22 hike on the daily minimum wage in Metro Manila granted by the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board-National Capital Region (RTWPB-NCR) but labor groups are angry, calling the pay hike a pittance and an insult to laborers.

Despite the P22 across-the-board wage increase, minimum wage earners in the National Capital Region (NCR) will still be exempted from paying income tax, an official of the Department of Labor and Employment said Tuesday, adding that the increase in monthly salary of workers in the private sector and government office will be implemented on July…

MANILA, Philippines – The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board in Metro Manila has approved the P22 increase in the daily take-home pay of two million minimum wage earners in Metro Manila. Beginning July 1, the minimum monthly basic pay of Metro Manila workers will go up to P13,042.                                

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THE central bank on Tuesday indicated the P22 wage hike decreed by the Metro Manila regional wage and productivity board for the metropolis would not have as great an impact as feared on inflation, but the modest rate has grimly disturbed employers. Malacañang Palace indicated the rise is reasonable under existing conditions, when business recovery…

MANILA, Philippines – Several groups on Tuesday decried the decision of the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board-National Capital Region to grant a P22 increase to the minimum wage of workers in Metro Manila, more than 2 years after the last wage order was issued.

THE Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) on Tuesday led labor in expressing deep disappointment over how “little” the approved wage hike of P22 for Metro Manila is.

MANILA, Philippines – The National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) announced yesterday that workers in Metro Manila are finally getting a P22 increase in their daily take-home pay after two years of waiting for adjustments.

New range for metropolis is P367-404, to take effect later this month DAILY MINIMUM WAGES in Metro Manila were ordered hiked by P22 yesterday, kicking off a round of nationwide adjustments shelved last year amid the global economic downturn.

MANILA, Philippines – With a growing number of Filipino families unable to meet basic needs, the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) is pressing for an immediate increase in the daily take home pay of workers nationwide.

Principal economist Rana Hasan and consultant Karl Robert L. Jandoc at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) saw a dearth in the study of the linkages between trade liberalization and wage inequalities in Southeast Asian countries so they zeroed in on efforts to produce a paper entitled: “Trade Liberalization and Wage Inequality in the Philippines.”

Manila (June 3) — The Formal Labor and Migrant Workers Council of the National Anti-Poverty Commission (FLMW-NAPC) passed a resolution recently urging the Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Boards to immediately act on petitions of wage increases filed by labor groups early this year.

THE Bangko Sentral has included in its inflation forecast a minimum wage increase of less than P75 a day, Governor Amando Tetangco Jr. said Wednesday.

“Fantastic” corporate earnings in the Philippines will drive stock valuations back toward levels in December, when multiples touched the highest in almost two years, according to ATR KimEng Asset Management Inc.

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said the timing and amount of wage increase is crucial to revisiting its baseline inflation forecast for this year and 2011.

MANILA, Philippines – Monetary authorities are awaiting the decision of the regional wage boards on the amount of salary increase that would be approved to be able to assess its impact on consumer prices, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Amando M. Tetangco Jr. said yesterday.

THE National Wages and Productivity Commission’s may decide on the petitions to raise the minimum daily pay as early as this week.

MALACAÑANG’S announcement of a wage increase—possibly “within the week”—appears to be premature because the regional wage boards are still holding consultations and deliberations on whether they will approve one.

CEBU, Philippines – The petitions for wage increase filed by the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines and the Cebu Labor Coalition remain in the shelf of the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board until now.

MANILA, Philippines—As wage boards deliberate on a pay increase for Metro Manila workers, the research group Ibon on Tuesday called on the government to approximate the wage hike to the estimated family living wage, saying the value of the P382 minimum wage in the metropolis was now worth only P235.

Saying it is almost a month since Labor Day, a moderate labor group questioned Malacañang Monday over the delay in granting a wage hike for laborers in Metro Manila.

MANILA, Philippines – Workers in Metro Manila are likely to get the much-awaited increase in their daily take-home pay within the week.

ABOUT 1.5 million government employees are assured of continued wage increases in the succeeding three years, even as President Gloria Arroyo ends her term in Malacañang on June 30.

THE Philippine Banana Growers and Exporters Association,Inc. (PBGEA) requested members of the Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Board to defer the petition of a national trade union for P75 wage adjustment in the region.

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MANILA, Philippines – Workers nationwide will get a much-awaited increase in their daily take-home pay after the May elections as a belated Labor Day gift, the National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) said yesterday.

Palace to let regional boards rule on labor’s salary demand Amid labor groups’ petition to increase their pay, Malacañang on Friday gave Regional Wage Boards (RWBs) the prerogative to decide on a wage hike, saying that there will be no declared pay raise on Labor Day, May 1, itself.

CALAMBA CITY—There won’t be any wage increase on Labor Day Saturday for at least 4 million workers in one of the most highly industrialized suburban areas of Metro Manila, labor department officials said.

THE Alliance of Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (ALU-TUCP) here yesterday threatened to boycott May 1’s Labor Day celebration activities to dramatize its protest over the government’s failure to approve its petition for a wage increase in northern Mindanao.

Rep. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos of Ilocos Norte on Wednesday warned government officials and business owners of mounting unrest among the ranks of workers because of the allegedly constant rejection of their proposed wage increases.