Minimum Wage and Salary

MANILA, Philippines – Here’s good news for workers nationwide. The National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) yesterday said that the two-tiered wage system is now in effect, which means workers can look forward to better pay in the coming days.

ILOILO CITY, July 24 (PIA) — Department of Labor and Employment OIC-Regional Director Crispin Dannug has urged employers in Western Visayas to to make sure that Wage Order No. 19, which took effect last July 15 this year, is implemented.

MANILA, Philippines – Migration analysts are recommending a different tack for negotiating better terms for Filipino domestic workers with host countries.

ILOILO CITY, Philippines — Workers in Western Visayas will have P12 emergency cost of living allowance (ECOLA) effective July 15 this year. Department of Labor and Employment-VI office-in-charge Crispin Dannug said the P12 ECOLA is contained in the new Wage Order No. 19 issued recently by the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board.

COTABATO CITY: The Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Board (RTWPB) approved a P10 increase in the cost of living allowance (COLA) of private sector minimum wage earners in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

Private sector workers in Central Visayas can expect an increase in the minimum wage this year. “Our closest timeline is within this year,” said Exequiel Sarcauga, chairman of the Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Board in Central Visayas after a meeting yesterday.

CEBU, Philippines – The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board-7 finally decided yesterday that there exists supervening conditions in the region, namely inflation and high fuel prices, which will now justify entertaining two wage hike petitions filed by two labor unions.

CEBU, Philippines – The Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines maintained that there is a supervening condition that justifies wage increase in Central Visayas.

CAGAYAN DE ORO — The business sector expressed mixed sentiment on a new wage order issued last week for Northern Mindanao. “We are for an increase but it should not have been that high,” said Antonio D. Uy, president of the Cagayan de Oro Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Oro Chamber).

It may surprise many, but the adoption of minimum wage greatly weakened the workers f bargaining leverage to obtain a reasonable market value for their labor. It is surprising, but that fs the way it is. Instead of having the incentive to unite to demand for an equitable amount of wage, the imposition of minimum…

WORKERS DEMAND higher wages. Companies offer rock-bottom rates. The government stands amid these conflicting interests, in the hope of mediating an acceptable outcome. This is how tripartism works: The business sector, labor groups, and the government–each represented respectively by the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), the Employers’ Confederation of the Philippines (ECoP), and…

BUSINESS leaders of Cebu gathered yesterday at the Norkis Social Center to discuss what they described as ill effects of frequent increase in the minimum wage.

OZAMIZ CITY, Misamis Occidental, June 28 (PIA) – A daily wage increase of Php5 has been proposed by the different business groups in Misamis Occidental.

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Misamis Oriental, June 27 (PIA) — The Php79.66 daily increase in wages is essential if workers are to cope with the increasing prices of commodities and cost of living.

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz has taken note of the demand of the Negros Panay Alliance of Labor for a review of Wage Order No. 19, that grants a P12 a day Emergency Cost of Living Allowance for three months only to minimum wage earners in Western Visayas, NPAL convenors Wennie Sancho and Randy Ronquillo said…

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CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – The regional wage board in Central Luzon recently issued a wage order providing for an additional P14 cost of living allowance (Cola) for minimum wage earners in the private sector in the region.

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines – The Cordillera Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWBP) here decided to hold in abeyance the granting of a wage increase for daily wage earners in the region because of the absence of a supervening event that could warrant the same to come out with a new wage order even before…

ILOILO CITY, Philippines—Labor groups are gearing for protest actions against the decision of the Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Board in Western Visayas to grant daily paid workers an  P12 emergency cost of living allowance of only P12.

CEBU, Philippines –  Few days ago the members of the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity in Central Visayas met to determine whether or not a supervening condition is present to warrant an increase in the minimum wage.

THE Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) in Western Visayas approved Wednesday a P10 Emergency Cost of Living Allowance (Ecola) for commercial and industrial workers in the region.

More than two million Filipinos should see a difference in their pay packets this month, after the authorities in Manila decided a cost-of-living allowance should be tacked on to the minimum wage.

MEMBERS of the National Congress of Unions in the Sugar Industry of the Philippines (Nacusip) asserted on Friday that workers and employees in the private sector in Western Visayas should be paid P364 per day.

MANILA, Philippines — Reminding them that “labor is the creator of capital,” Vice President Jejomar C. Binay urged businessmen to take care of their workers by ensuring compliance with accepted wage and other labor standards.

The labor representative on the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board yesterday said he is not optimistic that workers in Western Visayas will get an adequate wage increase with the “measly offers” made by management groups in Panay and Negros.

BACOLOD CITY, Philippines—Management groups in Negros Occidental offered a P7 Emergency Cost of Living Allowance (Ecola) for minimum-wage earners during a hearing of the regional wage board held Friday morning.

STALEMATE IN WAGE HIKE A tie vote of 3-3 by the Central Visayas wage board yesterday forced members to look harder into the merit of giving an early minimum wage hike.

SAN FERNANDO CITY, Pampanga, Philippines – Six months after a P24 per day wage hike was approved by the government, labor groups are now asking for P90 across the board wage increase in Central Luzon.

Minimum wage adjustment determined by the government after public hearings is a major part of Philippine labor welfare policy. The giant leaps in raising the welfare of labor in other countries should be studied to enable us to see the role of wage policy more clearly.

THE wage board in Region 8 has approved a new wage order increasing the daily minimum wage in Eastern Visayas by P8 .