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THE Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) has approved a P35 hike in the daily salary of minimum wage earners in Metro Manila or the National Capital Region.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The decision was released on Monday and will take effect 15 days after the publication of the order.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In a social media post Monday, the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board – National Capital Region (RTWPB-NCR) said Wage Order No. NCR-25 was signed on June 27.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Upon its effectivity, the daily minimum pay for non-agriculture workers in the private sector would be P645 from the current P610.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The daily minimum wage for workers in agriculture (plantation and non-plantation), service\/retail establishments employing 15 workers or less, and manufacturing establishments regularly employing less than 10 workers, will be raised to P608 from the current P573.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThe minimum wage rates prescribed under this Order shall be for the normal working hours which shall not exceed eight hours of work a day,\u201d the order said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), the wage increase took into account three petitions from labor groups requesting a hike in the daily minimum wage due to rising prices of basic goods and commodities.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The DOLE said the wage order is expected to benefit around<\/strong> 988,243 minimum wage earners in NCR.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cAbout 1.7 million full-time wage and salary workers earning above the minimum wage may also indirectly benefit as a result of upward adjustments at the enterprise level arising from the correction of wage distortion,\u201d DOLE\u2019s press release read.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The last wage hike order in NCR, which set a P40 increase, was approved on July 16, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) has approved a P35 hike in the daily salary of minimum wage earners in Metro Manila or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6925,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923\/revisions\/6925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}