New wage hike takes effect in Ilocos region
PRIVATE sector workers and employees in Region 1 or the Ilocos region will receive, beginning on Thursday, a salary increase ranging from P13 to P30 per day.
The new wage order approved the daily minimum wage rates in by the Department of Labor and Region I range from P243 to P280. Employment ( DoLE)- Regional Region 1 comprised the provTripartite Wages and Productivinces of Ilocos Sur, Ilocos Norte, ity Board ( RTWPB)– Region 1, La Union and Pangasinan. provides P30 hike per day for Nathaniel Lacambra, RTWPB-1 workers in large- non- agriculchairman and DoLE–ROI direc - tor, said the new wage hike will lishments; P20 in the medium cover all workers or employees non- agriculture establishments in the private sector receiving the and P13 for small and micro minimum wage rates irrespective establishments and agriculture of their positions, designations (plantation and non-plantation). or status of employment and re
Under the existing salary law, gardless of the method by which their wages are paid.
Excluded from the order, however, are kasambahay or domestic workers; persons employed in the personal service of another including family drivers and workers and employees of registered Barangay Micro Business Enterprises with
“The Board has thought that the new wage adjustments will help set off the anticipated effects of price hikes on the living conditions of our minimum wage earners starting this year,” Lacambra said.
In crafting the new wage order, the RTWPB considered the prevailing socio-economic conditions of the region as well as the viability of various businesses there.
Public consultations on the wage issue were conducted on in Pangasinan, La Union and Ilocos provinces to gather the positions of the labor and management sectors.
The RTWPB, an attached agency of the DoLE, sets the minimum wage in every region
Its mandate is to prescribe the minimum wage rates for all private enterprise workers in the regions, except for household helpers and persons in the personal employ of another.
country. They were created along with the National Wages and Productivity Commission (NPWC) by