Senator Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday, December 7 reiterated her call for the government to consider granting workers' demands for salary adjustments in order to address runaway inflation, which surged to 8.0 percent in November. Hontiveros said she particularly supports the call for wage hikes as...
The Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) ought to provide consumers a detailed computation on how it came up with the amounts of water rate increases for its two private concessionaires. (Noah/ Unsplash) Thus, said House Deputy Minority Leader ang Bagong Henerasyon Party-List Rep....
Fisherfolk group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) joined other progressive groups in seeking a “family living wage” amid rising rising costs of basic commodities in the Philippines. “We will benefit from the increase in workers’ wages because their ability...
Senators are in agreement that the country’s health workers deserve to receive a higher salary and be paid their benefits for their role in the government’s COVID-19 pandemic response. But lawmakers cannot say if the government has sufficient funds to agree to their demands of a monthly minimum...
Employees in the Philippines can look forward to an average 5.5 percent increase in their salaries next year, up from 5.3 percent this year and marking a return to the pre-pandemic level in 2019, according to Mercer’s annual Total Remuneration Survey (TRS) 2022. The TRS surveyed 447 organizations...
A group once again called on the government to increase the salary of teachers as they continue to lose a significant portion of their monthly pay to inflation. (NOEL PABALATE / MANILA BULLETIN) “With the country’s inflation rate hitting a 14-year high of 7.7 percent in October 2022, the...
ILOILO CITY – MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power), this city’s sole electricity distributor, has implemented another power rate increase, the second in three months. A MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) line man at work in Iloilo City. (MORE Power) MORE Power announced on Friday,...
A member of the Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives wants Malacañang to certify as “urgent” the proposed measures that will help curb the impact of spiraling oil prices. (Photo by Mark Balmores/MANILA BULLETIN) House Deputy Minority Leader and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France...
In order to help Filipinos cope with “runaway” inflation, Senator Risa Hontiveros said Malacañang should work more closely with lawmakers for new laws and policies aimed at increasing workers’ earnings and accelerating job creation across the country. Hontiveros said that while she welcomes...
The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) said on Tuesday, Oct. 18, that it will study the petition filed by three transport groups to charge every commuter of a surge fee for both passenger jeepneys and passenger buses during rush hours. In a statement, the LTFRB said it...
Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong were granted a HK$100 increase on their monthly salary, the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) confirmed on Thursday, Oct. 6. The new Hong Kong Minimum Allowable Wage (MAW) took effect on October 1, according to DMW. This is equivalent to a P750 salary...
Only 30,183 public utility vehicles (PUVs) have so far secured a copy of fare matrix, one of the conditions in the implementation of the fare increase. In a data provided by the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) on Tuesday, Oct. 4, it stated that out of the 182,615...
