RTWPB says P15-10

wage hike in Bohol

TAGBILARAN CITY, July 20 (PIA)—Daily wage earner private workers in the non-agricultural sector in Bohol get an additional P15.00, while those in the agri-sector get an additional P10, the Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Board (RTWPB) in Region 7 rules. 

Through Wage Order No. 21, dated June 18, RTWPB chairman, Department of Labor and Employ-ment 7 Regional Director Atty. Alvin M. Villamor said the increase would take effect by August 3. 

In its published new minimum wage rates culled from the wage order, the RTWPB earlier accepted the position papers of labor groups asking for P155.80 and P120 across-the-board increase, while they conducted wager hearing across the Visayas to fairly fix the minimum wage for private sector workers. 

According to the RTWPB, private workers in Tagbilaran City and in the towns of Bohol, along with the cities and the towns of Negros Oriental, which used to have P323 minimum wage through Wage Order No 20, will now earn an additional P15.00 or P10.00 daily, effective August 3. 

This means that private workers in non-agricultural establishments with over 10 workers shall get P338.00 per day while those working in establishments with less than 10 workers, will get P333.00. 

In the agricultural sector, Boholano workers who used to get pair 303 through the older wage order, will now get a P10.00 increase in daily pay, upping their daily take home pay to P3.3.00. 

Bohol, as with Negros Oriental falls under the RTWPB Class C classification. 

Based on the same new wage order, non-agricultural workers in the cities of Carcar, Cebu, Danao, Lapulapu, Mandaue, Naga, Talisay and the towns of Compostela, Consolacion, Cordova, Lilo-an, Minglanillla, San Fernando of the expanded Metro Cebu, which belong to the region’s Class A, will now get an additional P20.00 daily for working in establishments with over 10 workers or P376.00 and P10.00 for those hired in companies with ten employees below ten or a take home pay of P368. 

In these areas too, workers who are engaged in the agricultural sector would have between 20.00 to 52.00 daily increase. 

This means, from the P348 wage as pegged by Wage Order No. 20, non-sugar workers here now get P368.00 while those in the sugar industry get P368 from P316 in the previous wage order. 

For Class B, which include the cities of Toledo, Bogo and the rest of the towns of Cebu province except Bantayan island and Camotes, private sector workers in the non-agricultural sector will enjoy an increase of P15.00, or a daily rate of P348 if their companies hire more than 10, or P333.00 daily if they work with less than 10 workers. 

A P10-25 increase in wage would also be implemented in the agricultural sector workers here, pegging the new rates at P328.00, based on the new wage order, from the P318-P303 old wage. 

For Class D, which are for the towns of Siquijor and the towns of Bantayan and Camotes, which used to have a minimum of P308 per day pay, a P15 increase is pegged which would result to P323.00 earnings for workers in establishments with over 10 workers and P318 for those hired with less than 10 co-workers. 

For their agricultural sector, form the P288 under wage order 20, a P10.00-25.00 increase is set. 

Non sugar workers here now get P298.00 while sugar workers which used to have P303.00 will have P313.00. 

The new wage order however does not cover household or domestic workers, persons in the personal service of others, or workers of establishments registered under the Barangay Micro Business Enterprises who have valid Certificates of Authority, says the RTWPB. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)