Business, professional groups back ‘moderated’ pay hike for public school teachers

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:28:27 +0000

Several business and professional organizations have expressed support to a “moderated increase” in the pay of public school teachers. 

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Briones clarifies: I’m not against teachers’ salary increase

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2019 04:52:08 +0000

Briones clarifies: I’m not against teachers’ salary increase

Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Leonor Briones on Friday clarified she is not against the salary increase of public school teachers.

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Thousands of workers gather in Mendiola to reiterate demands for wage hike, end to contractualization

Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 07:15:05 +0000

Thousands of workers staged protests in Metro Manila on Wednesday, Labor Day, to reiterate their demands for a wage increase and an end to contractualization. Police said about 1,200 people…READ

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Labor seeks P710-wage hike for Metro Manila

Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 08:45:13 +0000

THE country’s biggest aggrupation of labor groups will file on Monday a P710-wage increase petition before the National Capital Region (NCR) stemming from the growing poverty in the country. The…READ

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Ex-DBM chief Abad: Gov’t pay hike for 2019 can be implemented despite reenacted budget

Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 08:49:16 +0000

Ex-DBM chief Abad: Gov’t pay hike for 2019 can be implemented despite reenacted budget

For former Budget Secretary Florencio Abad, the scheduled fourth tranche of salary hike supposed to be enjoyed by civilian government workers at the start of the year can be implemented even with a reenacted budget in place after Congress failed to pass the proposed P3.757-trillion 2019 national budget.

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Andaya: Diokno orders release of LGUs, GOCCs workers’ pay hike

Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 06:22:59 +0000

MANILA, Philippines—Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno has issued two Department of Budget and Management (DBM) circulars asking Local Government Units (LGUs) and Government Owned and Controlled Corporations (GOCCs) to release the fourth tranche of the wage hike to their employees under the Salary Standardization Law (SSL).

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Duterte vows to raise salary of teachers this 2019 

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:42:52 +0000

Duterte vows to raise salary of teachers this 2019 

President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to raise teachers’ salary this year, as he bared talking to Budget Secretary Ben Diokno about the plan.

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Labor chief says approved pay hike ‘too low’ for workers to cope

Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2019 21:22:03 +0000

Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said the approved minimum wage increases throughout the country were short of at least P100 for workers to be able to cope with the rising cost of basic commodities.

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Bayan Muna slams ‘insulting’ P25 wage hike amid 6.7% October inflation

Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Zarate and the group’s senatorial bet Neri Colmenares denounced on Tuesday the “insulting” P25 wage hike in the National Capital Region (NCR) amid the 6.7 percent October inflation rate in the country. Zarate said the 6.7 percent rate of increase in prices of basic commodities was a “testament” to the Tax […]

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