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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Wages up in Calabarzon, Davao

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Minimum wage earners in the CALABARZON will receive an additional P92 in their daily salary, while those in the Davao region will get an additional P47 based on the regional wage boards’ orders granting the pay increases in the two regions, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) announced.

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Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) in CALABARZON unanimously approved a wage order, setting the new minimum pay in the non-agriculture sector to P470 in the extended metropolitan area and the cities of Antipolo and Dasmariñas; P429 in component cities and (first class) municipalities; and P390 in the emerging growth area (second and third class municipalities) and resource-based area (fourth, fifth, and sixth class municipalities).

The new minimum wage rates in the agriculture sector, meanwhile, are P429 in the extended metropolitan area, in the cities of Antipolo and Dasmariñas, and component cities and (first class) municipalities; P390 in the emerging growth area (second and third class municipalities); and P350 in the resource-based area (fourth, fifth, and sixth class municipalities).

Also, the new minimum wage in retail and service establishments employing not more than 10 workers is set at P350 or an increase of P47 from the previous P303.

The wage increases will be given in two tranches. Workers will benefit from the number of increases upon effectivity of the new wage order and six months thereafter, the wage board said.

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Bello said the RTWPB cited restoration of the purchasing power of workers, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the competitiveness of wage levels between and across contiguous similarly situated regions, the simplification of the prevailing wage structure, and the need to promote industry dispersal as among the parameters in approving the new wage order in the region.

In Davao Region, meanwhile, the RTWPB issued Wage Order No. RBXI-21 which grants a wage increase of P47 for workers in agriculture, non-agriculture (industrial/commercial and retail/service establishments employing more than 10 workers), and retail/service establishments employing not more than 10 workers.

The pay hike will be implemented in two tranches–P31 upon its effectivity and the remaining P16 effective January 1, 2023.

Meanwhile, another P15 shall be granted to workers in the retail/service establishments employing not more than 10 workers effective April 1, 2023.

After full implementation of the wage tranches, the daily minimum wage rates in Davao region will increase from P391 to P438 in the agriculture sector, from P396 to P443 in the non-agriculture sector, and from P381 to P443 for retail/service establishments employing not more than 10 workers.

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