Senator Jinggoy Estrada Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada said on Saturday, July 1 that he may pursue a legislated wage increase as he sees the P40 daily wage hike authorized by the National Capital Region (NCR) regional wage board as simply not enough. Although he thanked the NCR regional wage...
Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva has filed a bill which sets living wage as a standard to determine the minimum wage. Senate Bill No. 2140 proposed an amendment to the wage fixing criteria in the Labor Code of the Philippines to put living wage in the front and center in the determination...
Senators on Friday, June 30 said the current minimum wage that has been set by the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board in the National Capital Region which is at P40 is too low for a Filipino family to live on decently. "Hangad natin ang sahod na makapagbibigay ng isang buhay na...
AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee (Facebook) Now that Metro Manila workers have been granted a wage increase, it's time for workers in other regions to be granted the same benefit. Thus, said AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee, who on Friday, June 30 welcomed the announced P40 minimum wage...
Gabriela Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas (Facebook) "It can hardly buy a kilo of rice." With this remark, Gabriela Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas slammed the recently approved P40 minimum wage increase in the National Capital Region (NCR), and called it far from sufficient as it falls short of...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. bared that the negotiations for a minimum wage increase are gaining progress. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Noel Pabalate) Marcos said this in a statement on Thursday, June 29, after the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), sat down with...
An expansive range of stakeholders from the Central Visayas business community expressed “strong opposition” on the proposed P150 daily minimum wage hike, warning of an “inflationary effect” once such measure by the legislative branch is passed into law. A joint statement from Central...
The Philippines ranked second highest in salary rate among ASEAN countries, the Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) said amid clamor and a pending bill in the Senate seeking for P150 increase in the daily minimum wage rate. ECOP President Sergio Ortiz-Luis Jr. said in an interview at...
The Senate Committee on Labor, Employment and Human Resources has “approved in principle” the bill seeking for a P150 across-the-board wage increase for all private sector workers in the country. The panel, which is headed by Sen. Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada, will now discuss the proposed...
The Senate is all set to start deliberations on the measure that seeks to give respite to Filipino workers by legislating a P150 daily wage increase. Senate President Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri said senators are in support of a salary hike as the current P570 daily wage is too low. ...
Senate leaders favor a legislated P150 a daily wage increase, Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri on Thursday, May 4, said. During a radio interview, Zubiri said the support of Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva, a pro-labor lawmaker, and Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III could help...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – A labor group in Northern Mindanao plans to file another wage increase petition as last year’s was not "sufficient to give the workers a life of dignity" due to inflation. A WORKERS’ union marches on Don Apolinar Velez St. on Labor Day as part of the Associated Labor...
