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Friday, July 28, 2006
Zambo Peninsula workers start receiving salary increase
By Bong Garcia
Over one million workers in the private sector will start receiving an additional P15 in their daily minimum wage starting Friday in Zamboanga Peninsula.
Wage Order Number 13, which provides for an increase of P15 in the daily minimum wage of workers in the private sector in the region, will take effect on Friday.
Wage Order Number 13 was approved on July 13 following a series of consultations conducted in the different parts of the Zamboanga Peninsula from June 27 to July 3.
Zamboanga Peninsula covers the provinces of Zamboanga Sibugay, Zamboanga del Sur, and Zamboanga del Norte and the cities of Dapitan, Dipolog, Pagadian, Zamboanga and Isabela in Basilan.
Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) spokesperson Josephine Crudo said there are at least 1.3 million workers in the private sector who will benefit from the new wage order.
The number of workers was based on last year's statistics, according to Crudo.
She said that the Dole regional office will send out inspectors to ensure that the employers are complying with the new wage order.
With this development, workers in the non-agriculture sector will be receiving P215 daily; plantation agricultural, P190; non-plantation agricultural (less than 24 hectares), P170; retail service establishments, and P195; cottage handicraft, P170.
Philippine Integrated Industrial Labor Union President Jose Suan said most of the beneficiaries in the non-agricultural sector are those working on nine big canneries, 28 big fishing firms and various department stores in this city.
Suan said the beneficiaries in the agricultural sector are those working in coconut and rubber plantation in the provinces of Zamboanga Sibugay, Zamboanga del Sur and Zamboanga del Norte and Isabela City.
(July 28, 2006 issue)
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