Wage increase
• Labor group says additional P38 for Region XI not enough
THE REGIONAL Tripartite Wage Productivity Board approved a P38 daily minimum salary adjustment for Davao Region, which will be rolled out in two tranches.
However, a labor group such as industrial, comthan 100,000 minimum in Southern Mindanao lamented mercial, retail/ service will wage earners across various that the adjustment be P462 from the present positions in private establishments is insufficient to support a P443. Meanwhile, agriculin the region family of five. tural sector workers will will benefit from the wage
According to the Department receive P457 daily from the adjustment. of Labor and Emcurrent P438. The RTWPB XI reployment (DOLE) XI, the The second tranche or cently approved the infirst tranche of P19 per day P19 daily will take effect crease after a wage delibwill take effect on March 6 on Sept. 1, which pushes eration on Feb. 13 and a through Wage Order No. up the minimum wages to public hearing last Feb. 7. RBXI-22. P481 and P476 for nonagriculture Meanwhile, domestic
With the adjustment, and agricultural workers or kasambahays the new minimum wage sectors, respectively. were also granted a P500 for non-agriculture sectors DOLE XI said more to P1,500 monthly wage increase starting March 6 under Wage Order No. RBXI-DW-03, depending on the location.
House helpers in chartered cities and first-class municipalities shall receive P6,000 monthly from the current P4,500 unvaried monthly wage across the region, while those in other municipalities shall receive P5,000 per month.
More than 65,000 kasambahays in the region will benefit from the increase according to DOLE
XI.
Atty. Randolph Pensoy, DOLE XI regional director, said the board meticulously assessed the wage increase considering the current socio-economic conditions in the region. Contributing factors include the Consumer Price Index and poverty threshold data from the Philippine Statistics Authority.
The last wage orders for minimum wage earners and domestic workers in the region were issued in
May 2022 and took effect in June of the same year. However, it was fully implemented in January 2023. Hike insufficient “Hindi sapat ang P38 sa mga pangangailangan, kagaya ng bayarin ng tubig, kuryente, pananamit, pambayad sa bahay at dobleng problema sa pasahe na nag-iincrease rin (P38 is not enough to sustain the needs like water, electricity, clothing, rent, and the transportation