Wage Board approves P31 increase for CV minimum wage earners

Futch Anthony Inso 05/24/2022

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB)-7 has approved a P31 increase for all minimum wage earners across Central Visayas. This was confirmed to Cebu Daily News Digital by Joe Tomongha, labor…

No Labor Day wage hike for Western Visayas workers

Carla Gomez 05/01/2022

BACOLOD CITY — Workers in the Western Visayas will mark a bleak Labor Day celebration on Sunday, May 1, due to the non-approval of their plea for a wage hike. Wennie Sancho, Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB)…

Metro Manila wage board junks TUCP petition for P470 hike

Daphne Galvez 04/05/2022

MANILA, Philippines — The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity (RTWPB) has junked the petition of the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) for a 470-peso hike in Metro Manila to increase the minimum daily wage from…

Wage hike decision in Central Visayas may be released within a month or two

Morexette Marie B. Erram 03/23/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The four wage hike petitions filed in Central Visayas are now up for deliberation.  The government’s decision, however, may take at least a month or two before this may be released. The Regional…

DOLE-7 urges employers to implement new minimum wage 

Irene R. Sino Cruz 01/06/2020

    CEBU CITY, Philippines — Employers in Central Visayas have to implement the new wage rates that took effect on January 5. Salome Siaton, regional director of the Department of Labor and Employment in Central Visayas,…

Judge halts salary hike for minimum wage earners in Bohol

Leo Udtohan - Philippine Daily Inquirer 01/05/2020

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Philippines — A trial court judge has stopped the implementation of the salary adjustments for minimum wage earners in Bohol province which was supposed to take effect on Sunday. Judge Jorge Cabalit of the…

Labor group asks wage board for P360-wage adjustment

Rosalie O. Abatayo 05/02/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu Labor Coalition (CLC) has asked the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board in Central Visayas (RTWPB) for a P361.50 wage adjustment on top of the present P386-daily minimum wage. CLC filed…

RTWBP-7 to determine validity of new wage hike petition

Futch Inso 11/04/2018

The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board in Central Visayas (RTWPB-7) will discuss the P150 wage hike petition filed by Cebu Labor Coalition (CELAC) on Monday (November 5). Department of Labor and Employment in Central Visayas (DOLE-7)…

Labor group demands for P120 wage increase

Morexette B. Erram 03/20/2018

A petition for a P120 minimum wage increase will be filed before the office of the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board in Central Visayas (RTWPB – 7) either this afternoon or tomorrow morning by the Associated…

P13 wage increase in effect today

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 03/09/2017

COMPANIES in Central Visayas will be monitored on their implementation of the P13 wage adjustment that takes effect today, the regional office of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said yesterday. “We can check if companies…

Labor groups: Scrap DTI-7, Neda-7 reps’ voting power in wage board

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Victor Anthony V. Silva 02/16/2017

AFTER their proposal for a P150 minimum wage increase was brought down to the approved P13 wage hike for Central Visayas, the disappointed labor groups in Cebu said they would lobby in Congress for the scrapping of…

Wage board approves P13 hike for Central Visayas employees

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 02/13/2017

The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB-7) approved on Monday afternoon the P13 wage hike covering the Central Visayas region. Joe Tumungha, coordinator of Nagkaisa and a member of RTWPB-7, said they will send the approved…

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