Providing for Increase in the Minimum Wage Rates in Central Visayas

June 18, 2018WAGE ORDER NO. ROVII-21PROVIDING 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; WHEREAS, the Cebu Labor Coalition, Lonbisco Employees Union (LEO), Metaphil Workers Union (MWU), NUWHRAIN-Montebello Chapter, NLM-Katipunan and Union Bank Employees Association (UBEA), filed a Petition for One Hundred Fifty Five Pesos and Eight Centavos (P155.80) n across-the-board daily wage adjustment on February 28, 2018 which was still within the twelve month prohibitive period;WHEREAS, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (ALU-TUCP) filed on March 20, 2018, a Petition seeking for an across-the-board wage increase in the amount of One Hundred Twenty (P120.00) per day;WHEREAS, since the existing wage order (Wage Order No. 20) reached its one-year anniversary on March 10, 2018, the Board issued Resolution No. 2-2018 on March 21, 2018 consolidating the two petitions for purposes of conducting joint public hearings and wage deliberations...