| Davao City health workers (left) distribute free medicines, donated by World Islamic Call Society (Wics), to members of least 100 families displaced by fire that hit a Muslim village in Sasa on April 4, 2005. (Sun.Star Davao/Rene B. Lumawag) |
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AFTER a three-day deliberation, the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) 11 has granted minimum wage earners in Davao Region a P15 cost-of-living allowance (Cola).
Under the new wage order, the allowance prescribed shall be for the normal working schedule of eight hours a day.
The wage order further stated that all workers paid by results, including those who are paid on piecework, "takay", "pakyaw", or task basis, shall be entitled to receive the prescribed Cola per eight hours of work a day, or a proportion thereof for those working less than eight hours.
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