real value of the minimum wage

PH minimum wages are family poverty wages – IBON
April 28, 2023
Filipino workers and their families are barely surviving on the minimum wage because this is even less than the official poverty threshold for a family of five.

Purchasing power of NCR minimum wage still falls
May 18, 2022
Price increases cause insufficient wages to further erode

Worker productivity goes to profits, not wages
October 26, 2018
“A large wage hike is also justified by growing worker productivity. Between 2009 and 2017, labor productivity in NCR grew by 35% from Php456,059 per worker to Php614,297. However, that same period, the real value of the mandated minimum wage only increased by 11% and of ADBP by 16%, both measured in real terms at […]