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Higher Central Visayas min. wage starts December
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 […]
High wage hike seen ‘to affect small business’
August 11, 2012
A HIGH wage increase may cause a shutdown or mass layoffs for small to medium scale enterprises (SMEs), a Cebu business leader warned yesterday. Prudencia Gesta, Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) president, said any wage increase should consider not only the workers but the small businesses as well. “Big companies like banks or […]
Central Visayas wage board votes 3-2 to start deliberations
August 10, 2012
An increase in the minimum wage for Central Visayas may be granted before Christmas. The door was opened yesterday by the wage board for an earlier-than-usual hike in the minimum wage for private sector workers, which is currently P285 to P305 in Metro Cebu. Voting 3 to 2, the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board […]
New floor wage order to take effect Sept. 22
September 7, 2011
With the P20 minimum wage increase set to take effect this month, labor groups in Cebu said they plan to file an appeal before the National Wages Productivity Commission (NWPC) for a bigger wage hike. Regional Director Exequiel Sarcauga of the Department of Labor and Employment in Central Visayas (DOLE-7) said the guidelines for the […]
Floor wage hiked to P305 daily for Metro Cebu
September 1, 2011
Workers in Central Visayas will receive an additional P20 in the minimum daily wage before the end of September. With a vote of 4-2 , the Regional Tripatite Wages and Productivity Board in Central Visayas (RTWPB-7) approved the P20 hike in the daily floor wage for workers in the provinces of Cebu, Bohol, Negros Oriental […]
Traders push benefits in lieu of wage hike
August 24, 2011
INSTEAD of a wage increase, Bohol businessmen pushed for benefits like medicines and tax incentives to workers. The Bohol Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) made the proposal during a public hearing on the wage hike petition held by the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) in Montebello Hotel, Cebu City. While the Bohol […]
Benefits better than wage hike: Bohol traders
August 23, 2011
by Candeze Mongaya, Reporter Cebu Daily News/ Breaking News Instead of a wage increase, Bohol businessmen pushed for benefits like medicines and tax incentives to workers. The Bohol Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) made the proposal during a public hearing on the wage hike petition held by the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity […]
CV wage hike petition sent to national board
May 13, 2011
By Candeze R. Mongaya and Jhunnex Napallacan The region’s workers would have to wait longer for a wage hike. The Central Visayas Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB-7) yesterday decided by a vote of 3-2 that “supervening conditions” for a wage increase existed in the region. But the board agreed to refer the matter […]
Labor group petition P100 wage hike
April 20, 2011
A LABOR group petitioned for a P100 wage increase in Central Visayas before the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) yesterday. The Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (ALU-TUCP) said it amended its previous P75 wage hike petition after the prices of gasoline and basic food commodities rose last week. Ferdinand Jumapao, […]
Wage board denies P125 pay hike bid
April 14, 2011
A petition for a minimum wage increase filed before the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board in Central Visayas (RTWPB-7) was dropped yesterday. The board dismissed the P124-wage increase petition filed by the Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) because it was filed within the reglementary period or one year after the last approved wage hike. […]
November 9, 2012
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