ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (Facebook) Following the passage of Republic Act (RA) No. 11997, or the “Kabalikat sa Pagtuturo Act", ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro says the government’s next step should be to increase teachers’...
ILOILO CITY – This city’s power distributor, MORE Power, has imposed P1.02 per kilowatt hour rate increase this month. A LINEMAN of MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) in Iloilo City. (Tara Yap) MORE Power said residential consumers will pay P11.3263 per kWh for their May 18 to...
While most consumers expected radical spike in electricity rates, power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) had announced a rather moderate hike of P0.4621 per kilowatt hour (kWh) in its overall pass-on tariff that will be reflected in the bills of consumers this May. For residential...
Senate President Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri on Thursday expressed his dismay against Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) chief Bienvenido Laguesma, whom he said is becoming one of the “unpopular” secretaries of the agency. Zubiri’s disappointment on Laguesma stemmed from the...
CEBU CITY – A warning that fares for modern jeepneys would increase to as high as P40 once the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP) is fully implemented is baseless, the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board-central Visayas (LTFRB-7) said. The LTFRB-7 was reacting...
The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) assured commuters that there is no basis to implement a fare hike as the government’s Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Programs (PUVMP) concluded the first phase of its implementation, which is the consolidation of operators...
Citing the increasing cost of basic goods and services, Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada has filed a bill that seeks to provide a new round of take-home pay increases for an estimated 1.9 million government employees. To increase the salary for government employees, Senate Bill No. 2611...
As the nation celebrates Labor Day, senators pressed for the passage of the bill seeking a P100 daily minimum wage for all workers in the country. "In the Senate, we have already passed the proposed P100 Daily Minimum Wage Increase Act in response to the call of our workers. We...
CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro – The provincial government has filed a petition before the Energy Regulatory Commission opposing the move of the National Power Corp. to increase electricity rates in areas outside the main Luzon grid by as much as 36 percent. In a seven-page petition, the...
Exodus to the provinces will be agonizing on the pockets of consumers this week, as they will feel the tangible strain of hefty oil price hikes that are due for implementation at the domestic pumps this week. Based on the pricing advisories of the oil companies, the price of gasoline products will...
The proposed legislated P100 national wage hike continues to be a heated issue as a group of informal sector workers has joined three business groups to resist its passage, saying the proposal will exclude a “supermajority” of workers from any wage increase and might even lead to them losing...
(MANILA BULLETIN) As workers and employers began to debate their respective cases on the legislated wage hike in the House of Representative, wage subsidies have emerged as a common ground between the two groups. House Committee on Labor and Employment...
