DOLE: Pay hike for Eastern Visayas minimum wage workers

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MANILA, Philippines — Minimum wage workers in the Eastern Visayas can expect to receive a salary hike amid the impact of soaring prices of goods due to the COVID-19 pandemic and overseas unrest.

This, after the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Saturday announced that the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) in the Eastern Visayas had issued a wage order approving the P50 wage hike for minimum wage earners in the region.

The wage hike will be given in two tranches of P25 on the effectivity of the wage order and another P25 on January 2, 2023, according to DOLE.

After the full implementation of the wage tranches, workers in the non-agriculture sector and in retail and service establishments employing 11 or more workers will receive a daily wage of P375, while workers in the agriculture sector, cottage and handicraft, and retail and service establishments employing 10 workers or less will receive a daily wage of P345.

The Eastern Visayas wage board also approved the P500 raise for household workers or “kasambahays.”

This brings the new minimum monthly wage rate for kasambahays in the region to P5,000 for chartered cities and first-class municipalities and P4,500 for other municipalities.

The DOLE said 82,712 workers in private establishments and 57,081 kasambahays are expected to benefit from the minimum wage increases.

The announcement is part of the successive waves of minimum wage increases all over the country.

Metro Manila and the Western Visayas are the first regions to receive minimum wage increases this year.

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