Minimum Wage and Salary

A faction of Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) has asked the National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) to review a recent decision granting Metro Manila workers a P30 cost-of-living allowance (Cola), saying the measly increase is not enough to meet a family’s daily needs.

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MANILA, Philippines—The hike in the minimum wage in Metro Manila is not expected to have a major effect on consumer prices in the country, according to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.

The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) expressed dismay over the announced wage increase of two-tranche thirty pesos in COLA only for minimum wage earners in the National Capital Region.

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said workers in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) could expect an additional income on their next pay day after the regional wage board approved an P8 wage hike in the  said region.

METRO Manila’s wage board has approved a 30-peso increase in the daily minimum pay of the workers in the metropolis, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said Friday.

The Philippines is now in a transition to a two-tiered wage system with the effectivity of the wage order of the Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Board-Region IV-A (Southern Tagalog), according to Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz.

With the first two-tiered wage order issued for Southern Luzon, the Philippines is now on its way to joining its “progressive” colleagues in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Department of Labor and Employment said.

PRESIDENT Aquino bared on Tuesday his administration’s “investment” in long-term measures to improve workers’ welfare in the country, including an P11.2-billion education-aid program that would benefit 1.6 million members of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) and the Social Security System (SSS).

Six of the Philippines’ 17 administrative regions—Cagayan Valley, Bicol, SOCCKSARGEN, Davao, Western Visayas, Southern Tagalog—have issued new wage hike orders, the National Wages and Productivity Commission said Friday.

MANILA, Philippines – The number of lowly-paid Filipino workers, mostly women, continues to rise despite economic improvements, the International Labor Organization (ILO) reported yesterday. According to the ILO, lowly-paid workers increased by 14.5 percent as more women took on low-paying jobs.

MANILA, Philippines – A study released by the International Labor Organization (ILO) revealed that 15 per cent of employees in the Philippines are lowly paid, lower than what Cambodians and Indonesians are receiving.  

THE local research group Ibon Foundation Inc. has urged the government to implement a significant minimum-wage increase, as this would bridge the widening gap between the minimum wage and cost of living.

MANILA, Philippines – Minimum wage earners in Central Mindanao are getting a much-awaited pay increase, the National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) said yesterday.

THE current clamor to increase the minimum wage is prompted by a number of reasons, the most important of which is the rise in the price of crude oil. Under the law, the minimum wage can only be adjusted once within a period of 12 months.

MINIMUM WAGE petitions in two regions are in an advanced stage, with workers in one area likely to receive a raise before Labor Day, officials said on Wednesday. The regional wage board in CALABARZON has submitted to the National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) its recommendation on the proposed increase in minimum pay, and will…

The proposed across-the-board P125 daily wage increase is not feasible because it will have more negative effects on the economy, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said.

Malacaang has avoided tackling the clamor for higher daily wages head on, although a recent assessment made by Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz that wage hikes of between P13 to P21 may be imposed by the Regional Wage Boards (RWB), a range way below the P125 increment that labor groups have been asking.

The woman looked ancient. Her sunburned skin glistened under the noon sun, white hair carelessly tied in a bun; her back was crooked under the weight of sack of copra.

MANILA, Philippines – Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz has ordered the wage board in Metro Manila to speed up the conduct of public consultations and grant a possible pay hike to workers in the metropolis before the end of May.

MANILA, Philippines – The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) of the National Capital Region (NCR) said yesterday it saw no reason to raise the salaries of workers in Metro Manila before the one-year ban on increasing wages ends on May 26.

MANILA, Philippines — Amid the rising cost of basic commodities, a labor group is pushing to raise the number of tax-exempt workers in the country.

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MANILA, Philippines – The National Wages and Productivity Board of the National Capital Region (NCR), after deliberations, found no supervening conditions that would warrant an early wage hike.

OIL prices have gone up several times, and starting today, commuters will pay 50 centavos more when they ride on jeepneys, but Malacañang is not convinced that these are enough reasons to increase the salary of ordinary workers. A Palace official on Tuesday said that President Benigno Aquino 3rd has rejected the proposed P125 across-the-board…

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THE Department of Labor and Employment announced that private sector workers in Bicol Region will be receiving additional P23 in their monthly wages after the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board approved the hike.

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Mining sector workers got high pay hikes The annual increase in the average pay of workers in major industries slowed down in the third quarter of 2011 to 3.5 percent, according to the National Statistical Coordination Board.

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Wednesday reminded bus operators that starting this month, bus drivers and conductors plying the Metro Manila route will receive minimum wage and other statutory wage-related benefits under a fixed pay scheme, replacing the old commission-based pay practice.