ON Labor Day this year, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. directed the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productive Boards to review the minimum wage amid complaints from organized labor groups about stagnant salary growth.
It pointed out that the increases approved by the regional wage boards did not make a dent in improving the condition of minimum wage earners.TUCP said the amount granted could not even buy a kilo of quality rice, which costs anywhere from P50 to P60.The Senate passed at the plenary level early this year a P100 legislated hike, but the counterpart bill for a P150 hike has been gathering dust at the House.
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