(MANILA BULLETIN) Trabaho Party-list is calling for "wage enhancements" for civilian workers, similar to the recently announced ₱200 daily allowance increase for military personnel. While the military allowance hike is a positive step, it...
“The fight for better wages is still not dead.” House Labor Committee chairman and Rizal 4th district Rep. Fidel Nograles made this clarification after the proposed P200 minimum daily wage hike bill wasn't passed on third and final reading before the adjournment of sessions Wednesday,...
Jobseekers (MANILA BULLETIN) The P200 wage hike bill for private sector workers continued its swift progress in the House of Representatives on Monday, Feb. 3 after it was sponsored in plenary and approved on second reading during the same...
(MANILA BULLETIN) If House Committee on Appropriations Chairman Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co would have his way, he would make Filipino workers' monthly minimum salary P45,000. Co has this to say in recent television interview wherein he...
BUTUAN CITY – The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board-Caraga has approved Wage Order No. RXIII-19 mandating a P50 increase to bring the daily minimum wage for private sector workers in the region. CARAGA region highligted. The RTWPB-13 also approved Wage Order No. RXIII-DW-05...
The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board has announced a P30 increase in the daily minimum wage in Eastern Visayas that will be paid in two tranches. The wage increase was based on Wage Order No. RB VIll-24 approved on Nov. 5. The RTWRB said the wage order was implemented after a...
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – The minimum daily wage for workers in the private sector in the Ilocos region or Region 1 increased by P33 starting on Thursday, Nov. 7. MAP of the Philippines with the Ilocos regtion highlighted. The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board of Ilocos...
The Chamber of Thrift Banks (CTB) is once again urging the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to reduce the minimum liquidity ratio (MLR) for thrift banks to 16 percent. Despite the central bank's opposition, CTB president Cecilio San Pedro said a lower MLR would provide much-needed flexibility for...
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) would only be considered a success if Congress is able to pass into law the proposed P100 daily minimum wage hike bill. Senator Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri pointed this out stating that the SONA...
4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino “Nonoy” Libanan (Facebook) House Minority Leader and 4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino “Nonoy” Libanan is calling on all Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Boards (RTWPBs) outside of Metro Manila to urgently...
Gabriela Women’s Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas (PPAB) Gabriela Women’s Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas described the newly approved P35 minimum wage increase in the National Capital Region (NCR) as an “insult”, and said that it failed to...
Starting July 16, the daily minimum wage for worker in Metro Manila will be P645 after the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board in the National Capital Region approved a P35 wage increase, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) announced on Monday, July 1. In a statement,...
