Tag: family living wage

Php663 wage hike needed to reach Php1,207 average family living wage

Mayo 4, 2024

A meaningful wage hike is urgent for nominal wages to keep up with the rising cost of living. Raising the minimum wage to a living wage corrects decades of injustice where workers create huge profits for employers but receive meager wages.

50-50 split between profits and workers’ wages more than fair — IBON

Mayo 1, 2024

Raising the minimum wage to a living wage corrects decades of injustice where workers create huge profits for employers but receive meager wages.

NCR Family Living Wage as of March 2024

Abril 9, 2024

The low wages and incomes of many Filipinos aren’t enough to keep up with the rising costs of basic goods and services.

Capitalists are inflationary, not wage hikes for workers

Abril 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.

The excuses they give: Kung ayaw ng wage hike, maraming dahilan

Pebrero 20, 2024

COMMENTARY

Opponents of a minimum wage hike say it will be “catastrophic” – cause inflation, lead to layoffs, and bankrupt firms. They say it will only help a few and only for a little while. None of these arguments holds water.