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President Marcos has appointed Philippine Economic Zone Authority officer-in-charge Tereso Panga as director-general of the investment promotion agency.
Amid a fuel price hike and the erosion of real wages, Philippine unions are fighting for a living wage by filing petitions with the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Boards (RTWPBs).
WAGE HIKE. TUCP Party-list Rep. Raymond Democrito Mendoza (second from right) stresses a point during a press conference before the group filed a PHP430 wage increase petition before the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board in Central Visayas on Monday (March 21, 2022). Mendoza said the last increase of PHP18 was granted in 2019. (PNA photo by John Rey Saavedra) CEBU CITY - The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) on Monday filed a petition before the Regional Wages and Productivity Board-Central Visayas (RTWPB-7) for a PHP430 increase in the daily minimum wage in the four provinces of the region. In its eight-page petition, the group asked RTWPB-7 to grant the increase for all private-sector workers, citing that its last petition was filed in 2019. The grant that became effective on Jan. 5, 2020, granted only an PHP18 increase in the minimum wage. Raymond Democrito Mendoza, TUCP president and TUCP Party-list representative, said in the petition "the meager P