THE central bank on Tuesday warned an increase in the minimum wage beyond P25 a day would result in higher commodity prices. Read the rest of this entry »

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz yesterday said that the National Capital Region Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board will meet anew on May 9 to deliberate on how much and in what form would the wage increase be given after both the government and the private sectors failed to come out a decision in yesterday’s meeting. Read the rest of this entry »

The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), the country’s largest labor group, said workers would not abandon their demand for financial relief on Labor Day. Read the rest of this entry »

President Aquino, who is lately besieged by falling survey ratings and threats of massive protest actions from a disgruntled labor sector, ordered the National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) to implement a P25 wage increase for private employees in Metro Manila, a business sector source said. Read the rest of this entry »

THE government agency that sets minimum wage rates on Wednesday announced it will be holding public hearings on a new pay increase for Metro Manila’s workers, and even though the last increase of P22 a day was granted less than a year ago, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – Amid ongoing changes to the government’s joint-venture guidelines and issues surrounding the build-operate-transfer (BOT) implementing rules and regulations, the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) gave assurances on Thursday that the agency can already approve public-private partnership (PPP) projects in only 6 months. Read the rest of this entry »

The Philippines has a surplus of nurses and it would be better if government encouraged their deployment abroad and discouraged the deployment of domestic helpers who are more prone to abuse, recommended the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP). Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – Workers from Central Luzon, Calabarzon and Mimaropa are unlikely to get the much-awaited salary increase this year. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines—(UPDATE) Labor officials must prioritize at least 6,000 Filipino workers forced out of Iraq in a program to hire 10,000 workers in Guam for the expansion there of US military facilities. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – Labor leader Ernesto Herrera claimed on Wednesday that reports of massive termination of Filipino maids in Hong Kong are “grossly exaggerated”. Read the rest of this entry »