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By Leslie Ann Aquino
The P25 wage adjustment for minimum wage workers in Metro Manila will take effect this month.
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello on Monday announced that the wage adjustment will already take effect on November 22.
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretay Silvestre Bello III (Keith Bacongco/ MANILA BULLETIN)
“It was published in a newspaper last November 7. So, 15 days thereafter it becomes effective and that is November 22,” he said in a press briefing.
Earlier in the day, the National Wages and Productivity Commission clarified reports that came out that the wage adjustment will take effect on November 27.
“For clarification, the new minimum wage rates in Metro Manila is effective beginning November 22, 2018 and not November 27, 2018,” NWPC said on their Facebook page.
It was last week when the Labor department announced the P25 pay increase in Metro Manila.
According to Bello, the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board – National Capital Region (RTWPB-NCR) approved the P25 wage increase and the integration of the existing P10 COLA (Cost of Living Allowance) last October 30.
This means that the minimum wage rate in the NCR would already be P537 from the present P512.
Labor groups such as the Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (ALU-TUCP) slammed the meager wage increase saying it will have no impact to lift workers and families out of poverty.
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