FLW
Capitalists are inflationary, not wage hikes for workers
April 5, 2024
COMMENTARY
Employers can afford big wage hikes. Instead of protecting profits, the government should be doing everything it can to raise wages which will be good for workers, their families and the economy.
NCR Family Living Wage, as of February 2024
March 6, 2024
Minimum Wage Vs Family Living Wage Per Region as of January 2024
February 8, 2024
NCR Family Living Wage as of January 2024
February 8, 2024
Marcos Jr’s first year passes without a wage hike, while NCR hike in July still paltry — IBON
July 3, 2023
The Marcos Jr administration cannot tout the NCR wage hike as an additional accomplishment to report on its first year. The new NCR wage is still so much lower than demanded by workers, than the FLW for a more decent standard of living, and even less than the increase in worker productivity, and the plight of millions more low-income self-employed and other informal sector workers and unemployed Filipinos remains unaddressed.
The family living wage (as of September 2022)
October 14, 2022
The recent oil price hike contributes to the soaring prices of basic goods and services. Filipino workers are having a hard time keeping up even with a minimum wage hike in June. In the National Capital Region, the minimum wage is barely half (51%) of the Php1,119 estimated family living wage needed by a family […]