Workers in Cordillera to get additional P50 to P60 wage increase

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Cordillera - The Department of Labor and Employment - Cordillera (DOLE-CAR) has agreed to give Cordillera workers additional minimum wage increase as set forth by the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board Office - Cordillera.

Mr. Nathaniel Lacambra, the DOLE CAR Regional Director said an additional P50 to P60 minimum wage increase has been approved and will come in two tranches. 

Lacambra explained that a P30 increase will be added to workers earning P350 in Baguio, La Trinidad, Benguet, and Tabuk City to make it P380 per day, while P40 will be added to workers in areas earning P340 to make it P380.

He said that the rest of the increase (P20) will be given on January 1, 2023 to make the minimum wage P400.

The new rates will be submitted to the National Wages Productivity Commission for approval and will take effect five days after being publish in national newspaper. 

For employers who can not afford the increase, Lacambra advises them to apply for provision of exemption. 

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GOOD NEWS: RTWPB approved NEW wage increase in Cordillera Administrative Region

(Wowcordillera) - Workers in some parts of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) will receive minimum wage increase this year as the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) announced it approved an increase of their minimum wage rate.

Augusto Aquillo, Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board Secretary said  his office had already received a confirmation about the proposed new minimum wage increase.

Aquillo said, the minimum wage rate increase will not be the same to all provinces.  The Department of Labor and Employment will convene on May 24 to explain the approved daily minimum wage increase.

The secretary further explained that workers who are receiving a salary of P285 per day will get an increase of P15 while those workers getting less than P285 will get an increase of P25 per day.

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The new wage order will set an increase of the daily minimum wage rate of workers in the region to P15 making a total salary rate of P300 per day from the previous salary of 285. This covers Baguio, La Trinidad and some parts of Benguet.

The wage order will be effective on June 5, 2017.

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GOOD NEWS: Domestic helpers in Cordillera get P500 minimum wage increase

Cordillera - Domestic workers in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) will receive salary increase of P500.

The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board Cordillera (RTWB - CAR) has released wage order No. CAR-DW-02 prescribing new minimum wage rates for domestic workers in the region.

After conducting series of public consultations and hearings from the different provinces in the region late last year and early this year, the RTWD-CAR has announced the necessary adjustment of the current minimum wage  rates of domestic workers.

According to the wage order publication, the reason for the increase is due to the rising cost of living.

Under section one of the said order, the board has approved a salary increase of domestic workers in cities and municipalities to P3,000 a month and P2,500 in other municipalities, an increase of P500 from the previous salary rate implemented in August 2015.

It covers all kinds of domestic workers such as general house helper, yaya, cook, gardener, laundry persons and any person who regularly performs domestic work in one household on an occupational basis except family drivers, children under foster family and any other person who performs occasional work.

The wage order was approved on 19th April 2017 and will take effect 15 days after its publication in a newspaper of general publication.

Aside from the new wage rate, domestic workers are afforded with social and other benefits such as SSS, Philhealth and Pag-ibig which contributions or premiums to these agencies shall be shouldered solely by the employer (based from "Batas Kasambahay" - " Mandatory premium payments or contributions shall be shouldered by the employer. However, if the kasambahay is receiving monthly wage rate of P5,000 and above, the kasambahay shall pay the proportionate share in the premium payment or contributions, as provided by law. http://www.ncr.dole.gov.ph/fndr/mis/files/Batas-Kasambahay-IRR.pdf)

The domestic worker is also entitled to a thirteen month pay.

Augusto Aquillo, RTWPB-CAR secretary, said employers who don't comply with the new order by withholding and interfering the wages shall be fined with not less than P10,000 and not more than P40,000.

Complaints of non-compliance should be filed before any of the the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) offices, Aquillo added.

By Ian - (wowcordillera.com)

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