Metro workers get pay adjustment soon (8:56 p.m.)
MANILA — Workers in Metro Manila would just have to wait for two more weeks to survive and cope with the rising cost of essential products and services.
This, after the National Capital Region (NCR) wage board will hold a “marathon deliberations” after the May 13 public hearing to enable them to come up with the decision on how much additional pay would be given to workers.
“If all evidences are submitted during the May 13 hearing, the board will begin the marathon deliberations, and in the next two or three weeks there will be decision,” Ciriaco Lagunzad III, executive director of the National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC), said during the Labor Day celebration at the World Trade Center Thursday.
Lagunzad also said he expects key regions like the NCR and Regions 3, 4 and 7 would issue wage order this month while the rest would be early next month or before the end of June.
“We are hopeful that before the end of June all wage boards have issued the (wage) order,” he said. The NCR wage board in 2007 granted P12 wage increase bringing to P362 the current wage rate in Metro Manila.
He also warned the NCR wage board to be “careful” in its decision and stop favoring the employers. (Sunnex)
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