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By: Resel Joy Tianero
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ILOILO City – The proposed P125 across-the-board wage hike is not within the mandate of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), according to DOLE Region 6 officer-in-charge director Salome O. Siaton.
This after reports rose that DOLE secretary Silvestre Bello III disapproved the wage increase.
According to Siaton, the disapproval is not true “because it is not within the jurisdictions of the DOLE to legislate the national wage.”
“There is an existing law that allows the Department of Labor and Employment, through the regional tripartite wages and activity board, to have consultation, public consultations, and determine possible wage adjustments in the region,” Siaton told Panay News.
In an interview last month, Bello stressed that the government is not urging the P125 across-the-board wage hike, saying the salary increase is a “personal position” of one of his undersecretaries./PN
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