{"id":4187,"date":"2011-04-18T03:57:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T03:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/bird\/?p=4187"},"modified":"2011-04-18T03:57:08","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T03:57:08","slug":"ncr-wages-only-25-of-cost-to-live-decently-govt-urged-to-raise-wages-to-decent-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/ncr-wages-only-25-of-cost-to-live-decently-govt-urged-to-raise-wages-to-decent-level\/","title":{"rendered":"NCR wages only 2\/5 of cost to live decently: gov&#8217;t urged to raise wages to decent level"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Daily minimum wage in Metro Manila has dropped to only about 41% of the amount needed for decent living<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amid calls for a wage increase, research group IBON says that the daily minimum wage in Metro Manila has dropped to only about 41% of the amount needed for decent living. This is less than the figure 10 years ago in 2001 wherein the minimum wage was about 52% of the cost to live decently.<\/p>\n<p>According to IBON, the daily minimum wage of Php404 is just 2\/5 of the estimated average family living wage (FLW) of Php988 in the National Capital Region (NCR) as of March 2011. The FLW is defined as the minimum amount needed for a family of six members to meet their daily food and non-food needs plus 10% allocation for savings. The latest FLW estimates are based on the 2008 FLW data from the National Wages and Productivity Commission of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).<\/p>\n<p>In 2001, the daily minimum wage of Php265 was half of the amount a family needed to live decently at Php509. As the DOLE and the wage boards deliberate on whether to give a wage hike next month, research group IBON urges government to raise wages to a decent level and approximate the wage increase to the estimated family living wage. (end)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily minimum wage in Metro Manila has dropped to only about 41% of the amount needed for decent living Amid calls for a wage increase, research group IBON says that the daily minimum wage in Metro Manila has dropped to only about 41% of the amount needed for decent living. This is less than the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}