[av_one_full first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ padding=’0px’ border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ background_color=” src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=”]
[av_heading heading=’Wage increase sought ‘ tag=’h3′ style=’blockquote modern-quote’ size=” subheading_active=’subheading_below’ subheading_size=’15’ padding=’10’ color=” custom_font=”]
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
[/av_heading]
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”]
ILOILO City – The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) is hearing the petition for wage increase filed by a workers’ union.
The Board set the second public hearing on Oct. 21 at a hotel on Sen. Benigno Aquino Jr. Avenue, Mandurriao district.
The petition was filed by the Negros-based Philippine Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Workers Union.
The second hearing will cover Iloilo, Antique and Guimaras provinces. The first was conducted on Oct. 14 in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, said RTWPB board secretary Atty. Ailyne Valaquio.
There will be another hearing next month for Capiz and Boracay (Aklan).
Valaquio said the wage hike petition was filed at the Bacolod City office of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in Aug. 30 yet and supposedly for the Negros Island Region (NIR) only.
But since DOLE-NIR did not have an RTWPB, the petition was forwarded to the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) and later to the RTWPB of Western Visayas.
“We were advised by the Commission nga we should consider it as part of our deliberation process for Region 6, too, considering nga ang ila nga daw basis is ang mismo wage structure diri sa region,” Valaquio explained.
The proposed salary hike is in three levels. The first is for commercial establishments employing more than 10 workers – an increase of P101.34 in the daily minimum wage.
Second is for plantations with more than 24 hectares of land – P90.61 increase.
Third is for non-plantations and plantations with 24 hectares and below – P86.87 increase.
The last RTWPB order for a salary increase was issued last May 2015, according to Valaquio./PN
[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]
