Private sector workers in the two Agusan and Surigao provinces and their component cities got a post-election gift in the form of the P10-minimum wage increase that the Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board in Caraga region has approved.
As labor groups condemned contractual employment and low wages across the country, other people kept themselves busy doing something else on Labor Day: They applied for jobs.
The government would unveil “nonwage” benefits on Labor Day, Malacañang said Sunday, as it exhorted Filipinos to seize some 400,000 jobs in job fairs to be held Tuesday across the country.
The cost of living in Metro Manila has risen to P1,200 for a family of six members, an amount that the parents could not raise if they are both just earning the current minimum wage, according to a labor group.
Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz advised young Filipinos on Friday to take up courses that would land them high-paying jobs over the long term, saying a recent study by the Bureau of Local Employment showed that the most lucrative jobs over the last five years were in the fields of aviation, banking and finance, business process outsourcing, creative industries, cyber services, manufacturing, and mining.
The House committee on labor and employment on Wednesday, the last session day before the 15th Congress goes on recess, approved a bill seeking a P125 across-the-board wage increase.
Labor leaders from Luzon on Friday tried to convince the House subcommittee on labor standards to endorse a measure that would increase daily wages by P125 during the last of a series of congressional hearings held near the town’s strawberry fields.
It will be a merry Christmas for private sector workers in Central Visayas. The new wage order, which will increase by P22 their minimum daily wage, will take effect on Dec. 7, said Ma. Gloria Tango, Department of Labor and Employment regional director.
Private sector workers in Central Visayas will get an additional P22 in the daily minimum wage when a new wage order takes effect in December. This raises the floor wage to P327 a day for employees in Metro Cebu, the second highest rate in the country next to Metro Manila. The increase was approved unanimously [...]
The regional wage board in Central Visayas approved Thursday a P22-increase in the daily minimum wage.
Government workers who are supposedly in the forefront of research and innovation are turning to the lowly lugaw to dramatize the step backward they are being forced to take in terms of salaries and benefits.
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO—The P30-increase in the daily basic pay of minimum wage earners in private companies in Central Luzon is not enough to cover the P36 in price increases of galunggong (round scad) from January 2007 until September, a labor leader in the region said. The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) [...]
A public hearing on two pending wage increase petitions will be delayed pending resolution of a motion for reconsideration filed by a management representative in the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB).
