Philippine economy

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.

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.

Ang mahalaga sa pag-unlad ng pambansang ekonomiya

Marso 26, 2024

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1.4M jobs loss stresses need to strengthen local agri, Filipino industries – IBON

Marso 9, 2024

The drop in employed persons, combined with the phenomenal decrease in labor force participants and the swelling number of those not in the labor force, indicates a growing number of discouraged Filipino workers.

IBON stresses to solons: An across-the-board minimum wage hike is urgent, just, doable

Pebrero 28, 2024

In a House deliberation on wage hike proposals, research group IBON executive director Sonny Africa stressed that there is no reason not to give any of the wage hikes currently proposed by different legislation.