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DOLE: No wage increase in 2010
By Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star) Updated December 31, 2009 12:00 AM

MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) yesterday dashed hopes of a possible increase in the take-home pay of minimum wage earners next year.

For the second straight year, Labor Secretary Marianito Roque said workers nationwide are unlikely to get any salary hike.

“I don’t think there will be any wage increase because there is no economic basis,” Roque said.

He noted that all indicators for salary increases, including oil prices, remained low at this time.

Citing a report from the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), Roque said the increase in food prices at this time is only temporary.

“The increased price in cooking gas and other basic commodities according to NEDA is only holiday-related and would go down soon after the holiday season is over,” Roque pointed out.

Oil companies have even rolled back prices, which Roque said was among the factors being considered by wage boards in granting salary hikes.

The different Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Boards (RTWPBs) may also not undertake the annual wage review unless a formal petition for wage hike is filed by labor groups next year.

“Since there is no supervening event to warrant review, the wage boards are unlikely to conduct a wage review,” Roque added.

He said the only thing that could prompt the boards to grant a salary increase next year is extraordinary increase in prices of basic commodities.

Roque said the labor sector should look at the productivity in the country before seeking a wage increase.

The different wage boards last granted salary increases with the highest hike of P20 in Metro Manila in 2008.

SURVEY TOPPERS

Backed by barrage of ambiguous surveys conducted by various  "survey groups", everyone pompously claims to be  the number ONE and the most favored leader who  promises a government led by a poor whose main agenda is the welfare of the poor. 

For decades, political wannabees chant these pro-poor polychrome advocacies, duping and assuaging the poor into believing they can make heavens on earth. Poverty becomes the byword and the epicenter of the political campaign advertisements.

Poor poorer people. Often misled, exploited and merely used as campaign strategy for political ascendancy. 

 

ESTORYAHEEEEE

OIL PRICE INCREASE AGAIN!!

A SHELL official  said they would need to adjust fuel costs  and MUST raise the oil prices despite the decline of prices worldwide because they've  only effecting  increases in small increments and most importantly, to defray the COST OF THEIR RECOVERY.

Numbed and fed up with protracted poverty, the public no longer react to flashed news of oil price increases. Strikes and protests of different sorts are proven futile. Our government and our court of laws are undoubtedly inept in stopping the shenanigans of the CARTEL.

Sadly, the oil price increase has become a part of every filipino's life.

 

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i have a separate blog (www.monkeybusinesscartoons.blogspot.com ) for my monkey business cartoon published weekly in the edgeDAVAO (www.edgedavao.net)  but i dont want to miss this chance not to post this special comic strip here.i know many gsis subscribers, especially the pensioners could relate to the old man's woes.

Every end of the month, I  observed  long lines of retired government employees queuing in the  gsis kiosks and ATM machines  booths clutching their E-CARDS as if life depend on it.(which truly is). I sometimes became a part of the group when my nanay sent me to withdraw her pension.It broke my heart to hear those sighs of dismay every time a pensioner left the ATM booth, unable to withdraw any amount  and muttering "delayed na pud ang pension, unsaon na lang ang akong tambal". blaaast!!!!

One time I was reading a newspaper inside greenich victoria when I came accross  a letter published in the Phil Daily Inquirer about this agency's effort to effect transparency in all its procedures.  

Mother of all coincidences!!!!I  The old man on the other table also reading PDI  echoed the very word  I said after I leafed through the pages of my paper.

"EEEESSSTORYAHEEEEE!!!!!"

I was very certain he read the same letter.

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secret of secrecy folder deal

 

  

Election related anomalies are endless. Every election, these crooks become more creative in finding ways how  to dip their hands in the COMELECs coffer.  They have become more daring to do absurd things in favor of some influential politicos in exchange of favors. To cite a few, the unresolved hello garci mess, the questionable zero votes of former presidentiables in Central Mindanao, the  computerization scam, down to washable indelible ink. 

AND now, the secrecy folder.