Wage boards ordered to study pay hike amid soaring oil prices radyonatin.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from radyonatin.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
(File photo) MANILA - The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has ordered all wage boards across the country to look into the need to increase the salaries of workers amid soaring oil prices. "I activated the wage boards since they are mandated, to continue monitoring our wage levels and based on their assessment of economic powers and consultation with major stakeholders who are represented in the wage boards, the tripartite councils with economic advisers, National Economic Development Authority (NEDA), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) are studying, observing economic factors in all regions," Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said in a virtual forum on Wednesday. Bello said the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Boards (RTWPBs) across the country will speed up the review of the minimum wages as skyrocketing fuel prices continue to take a toll on the local economy. "The PHP537 daily minimum wage (National Capital Region) we have a slight problem be
Over 150 OFW beneficiaries in Siargao towns get DOLE aid radyonatin.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from radyonatin.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
OWWA administrator Hans Leo Cacdac (File photo) MANILA - Employers who will not accept overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Hong Kong who have been infected with coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) and have since recovered will face sanctions, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) said on Wednesday. "The possible sanction will be a labor case if they terminate our OFWs. The next one will be on the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA). (Labor) Secretary Silvestre Bello III declared that employers who have treated our workers like that, will be blacklisted," OWWA administrator Hans Leo Cacdac said in a Laging Handa briefing. Cacdac added that these employers will also face penalties by the host territory. "On the Hong Kong side, the labor authorities, that's illegal termination and then, here on the POEA the blacklisting of employers who carry out illegal termination," he added. As of Wednesday, Cacdac said eight out of 76 OFWs who have
AID TO OFW FAMILIES. Some 100 overseas Filipino worker-beneficiaries in Del Carmen town in Siargao Island, Surigao del Norte on Feb. 22, 2022 receive their payout for their 15-day employment with the government. Apart from them, other beneficiaries who came from San Benito, were given assistance through the Tulong Pangkabuhayan Para sa Displaced/ Disadvantaged program of the Department of Labor and Employment. (Photo courtesy of DOLE-SDN) BUTUAN CITY - A total of 153 overseas Filipino worker (OFWs)-beneficiaries from two towns in Siargao Island, Surigao del Norte received their payouts on Tuesday through the Tulong Pangkabuhayan Para sa Displaced/ Disadvantaged (TUPAD) program of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). A total of PHP734,400 were released during the distribution activity as each beneficiary received PHP4,800 for their 15-day employment. Of the total number of beneficiaries, 100 were from the town of Del Carmen while 53 came from San Benito. The beneficiaries of t