Live Breaking News & Updates on He New Minimum Wage

(File photo) MANILA - Fulfilling Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III's directive to review the existing minimum wage rates nationwide, 14 regional wage boards have already issued their respective wage orders granting pay hikes ranging between PHP30 and PHP110. In a news release on Sunday, Bello thanked the wage boards for resolving with dispatch the petitions for wage adjustments, adding that minimum wage earners, including domestic workers, are expected to benefit from a series of pay hikes across the regions starting this month and until early next year. The earliest wage hike of PHP33 took effect in the National Capital Region on Saturday, June 4, bringing the minimum wage rate to PHP570 for workers in the non-agriculture sector and PHP533 for those in the agriculture sector. In the Cordillera Administrative Region, the PHP50-PHP60 pay hikes will be implemented in two tranches. The minimum wage in the region will be PHP380 effective June 14 and this will further increase to PHP4 ....

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