Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri warned about the possible exodus of more Filipinos to seek greener pastures abroad should Congress decide not to pass a legislated wage increase for workers in the private sector. | kdevillaINQ MRamosINQ /PDI
“We cannot afford to treat our workers badly. Without them, our industries will shut down and our economy will plummet. So they really deserve to make a living wage,” he said.Zubiri also thanked the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines , the country’s biggest alliance of labor unions, for supporting the measure he filed pushing for a P150 across-the-board increase in the daily rate of workers of private companies.
The leaders of Kapatiran ng mga Unyon at Samahang Manggagawa , for their part, have urged the Metro Manila regional wage board to act on the group’sThe labor group filed the petition for a wage hike in the Metro Manila Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board in December last year. Theon Monday “to close the gap between the current minimum wage and the calculated family living wage across regions.
A day later, Zubiri filed a similar measure, this time seeking an across-the-board legislated wage increase of P150 in the daily pay of workers in the private companies “to ease the effect of wage erosion brought about by inflation.”
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