Workers in the Calabarzon region will receive a P35 to P50 hike in their daily minimum wage this month, the Department of Labor and Employment said.
Calabarzon’s Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board issued the wage hike order on Sept. 1. The order is to take effect 15 days from its publication or on Sept. 24.
Non-agricultural workers in the region will see their pay increase to P520 per day.
On the other hand, service and retail establishments employing 10 or fewer workers and manufacturing establishments regularly employing less than 10 workers will see their daily pay rise to P385.
Meanwhile, agricultural workers in Calaca and Carmona will see anincrease of P89 in their daily wage due to their localities’ reclassification as component cities.
The new rates are expected to benefit over 719,000 minimum wage earners in the region, DOLE said.
DOLE said this will result in a “comparable 23 percent increase in wage-related benefits covering 13th-month pay, service incentive leave(SlL), and social security benefits such as SSS, PhilHealth, and Pag-lBlG.”
“About 1.6 million full-time wage and salary workers earning above the minimum wage may also indirectly benefit as a result of upwardadjustments at the enterprise level arising from the correction of wage distortion,” it added.
In June, the wage board approved a P40 hike in the minimum wage in Metro Manila.
