Motorists filling up their vehicles with diesel products will have another week of agonizing trip to the petroleum pumps as the price of this commodity will rise by hefty P3.60 to P3.90 per liter. For households and key industries like aviation, the cost burden will also come heavy because the cost...
Some of the tax measures that President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. is pushing may face rough sailing in the Senate, Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero said on Thursday, July 27. Some of these tax measures, Escudero said, may even be blocked, especially if they will cause misery to an already...
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)-6 has started reviewing the proposed P100 salary hike for workers in Western Visayas. “We hope to gather insights that will shape policies that are grounded in the actual needs of the workers and the current economic situation and give...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is establishing legal ground for the targeted revocation of a previous resolution allowing pass-through of the 3.0-percent franchise tax of transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) to electricity consumers. “Our legal team is...
Senator Ramon Bong Revilla Jr. on Monday, July 17 vowed to continue pushing for the passage of his P150 across-the-board wage hike bill. Sen. Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr. (MB File Photo) Revilla stressed the importance of legislating it to allow the...
Senate President Juan Miguel “Migz” F. Zubiri on Friday, July 7, assured labor groups and all workers that he would continue to push for a legislated minimum wage hike of P150 to ensure that Filipino workers receive a decent living wage. Senate President Juan Miguel...
Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri on Monday, July 3, said he has a strong support from his fellow senators to pass a legislated P150 minimum daily wage increase to benefit all laborers throughout the country. This came after the Senate labor committee chaired by Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada...
Senator Raffy Tulfo on Sunday, July 2 criticized the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s (BIR) “anti-poor” plan to impose taxes on junk food and other food items next year. Sen. Raffy Tulfo (Senate PRIB Photo) Tulfo...
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...
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...
