Minimum Wage and Salary

MINIMUM wages in Metro Manila will be increased by P10 to a range of P429-466 per day, the Labor department announced on Friday.

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The Joint Foreign Chamber of the Philippines (JFC) is not in favor of the “across-the-board wage increase” in Manila, in reference to the petitions for minimum wage hike in the National Capital Region (NCR).

Vice President Jejomar Binay on Monday threw his support behind proposals to review the Salary Standardization Law to stem the reported exit of government workers for higher-paying jobs abroad.

LONDON – Nothing lasts forever but a global trend that set in 30 years ago shows no sign of ending: a steep rise in the share of income that goes to profits and a corresponding decline in labor’s slice of the economic pie.

Four of 10 companies in Asia Pacific, including the Philippines, are spending more than 20 percent of their payroll on employee benefits, according to a recent survey.

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BUTUAN CITY, Agusan del Norte, Philippines – Private sector workers in the two Agusan and Surigao provinces and their component cities got a post-election gift in the form of the P10-minimum wage increase that the Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board in Caraga region has approved.

MANILA, Philippines – President Aquino has rejected a majority of the proposals of labor organizations, including tax exemption for minimum wage earners.

MANILA, Philippines – Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada on Tuesday strongly urged regional wage boards to immediately review and eventually grant the salary petitions of workers.

MANILA, Philippines – Garment exporters are supporting the two-tier wage system being pushed by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).

MANILA, Philippines – Filipinos and other foreign workers in South Korea have been granted an increase in the minimum wage.

GENEVA – A sluggish global economy hit world wage growth hard last year, taking an especially harsh toll on workers in developed countries, who saw their salaries shrink, the International Labour Organization said Friday.

MANILA, Philippines—The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board for Central Visayas has announced that the region’s workers will get a P22-wage hike starting December 7.

Several ASEAN countries have raised their minimum wages or will do so in the near future to adjust salaries to the rising costs of living and to provide the population with higher purchasing power. However, businesses and investors claim that the wage hikes were a blow to competitiveness and would make setting up new businesses…

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) in Central Visayas approved Thursday afternoon a P22-increase in the daily minimum wage, said to be the biggest since 1989.

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MANILA, Philippines — Minimum wage earners in Region VIII will get a P7.00 Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) in their daily wage rate which will be effective on October 16. This is according to the National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) website.

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IT ONLY TAKES nine minutes for a worker in Tokyo (Japan) to earn enough to buy a Big Mac but a wage earner in Manila will have to toil eight times longer or 73 minutes to be able to afford the same item, according to a UBS study.

A new United Nations report urges governments to use fiscal and labor market policies to reduce income inequality, maintaining that this not only leads to social benefits but will spur economic growth and development. Produced by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the Trade and Development Report 2012 says that recent experience, especially…

Cutting wages tends to increase competitiveness but can also hurt economic growth as it decreases domestic consumption, the International Labour Organization has warned.

MANILA, Philippines – Call center agents and other workers who reported for work despite the heavy rains and massive flooding last Tuesday would get extra pay. Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said the law provides extra pay for workers who were required to render services in times of calamities.

Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz reported yesterday that 957 bus drivers and 950 bus conductors have benefited from the legislated minimum wage and performance incentives as proof of their compliance with Department Order 118-12, the rules and regulations governing employment and working conditions of drivers and conductors in the utility bus…

MANILA, Philippines – Employers are seeking reconsideration of the wage board order granting a P30 wage hike for workers in Metro Manila.

AN INCREASE in the basic compensation of minimum wage earners in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) has been approved by the regional wage board though the amount has yet to be set, an official said.

The Supreme Court (SC) yesterday stopped the implementation of the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE)order fixing wages of bus drivers and conductors.

MANILA, Philippines – More workers in Metro Manila are likely to enjoy their salary increase as few commercial establishments sought exemption from the mandated wage increase, a Department of Labor and Employment official said yesterday.

DOLE enforces new pay system today It may be considered the end of an era on Metro Manila roads, one that is partly blamed for the undisciplined behavior of drivers in the public transport sector.