Providing for Increase in the Minimum Wage Rates in Central Visayas

November 26, 2019WAGE ORDER NO. ROVII-22PROVIDING FOR INCREASE IN THE MINIMUM WAGE RATES IN CENTRAL VISAYASWHEREAS, Republic Act 6727 otherwise known as the Wage Rationalization Act of 1989 mandated the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Boards to determine and fix the minimum wages of private sector workers in the regions; CAIHTEWHEREAS, the Cebu Labor Coalition, Lonbisco Employees Union (LEO), Metaphil Workers Union (MWU) and Union Bank Employees Association (UBEA), filed a Petition for Three Hundred Forty-One Pesos and Seventy-Five Centavos (P341.75) across-the-board daily wage adjustment on August 9, 2019;WHEREAS, the petition was filed six (6) days after existing Wage Order No. 21 reached its one-year anniversary and the prohibitive period for filing petitions has lapsed;WHEREAS, on August 13, 2019 the Board issued Resolution No. 6-2019 declaring the petition as duly filed and considered for purposes of conducting public hearings and wage deliberations to expedite the resolution thereof;WHEREAS, the Notice of Public Hearings was published in The Freeman Newspaper on August 17, 2019 and a series of wage public hearings were conducted in Dumaguete City (September...