Cagayan Valley workers get P25 wage hike

BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines – Workers in Cagayan Valley can now expect an increase of P25 in their daily minimum wage effective May 16.

In the new wage order, the regional wage board approved a P10 hike in the private workers’ daily pay as well as the integration of their P15 daily cost of living allowance into the basic wage.

Sixto Rodriguez, regional director of the Department of Labor and Employment and head of the regional wage board, said the pay increase was the result of last month’s tripartite consultations with the labor and management sectors.

Based on the new wage order, workers in Isabela’s non-agriculture sector will receive a daily pay of P255; those in the agriculture sector, P243; retail or service sector with more than 10 employees, P247; and firms with less than 10 workers, P220.

In Cagayan, the new wage rates are P252 for the non-agriculture sector; P240 for the agriculture sector; P244 for retail or service firms with more than 10 employees; and P217 for those with less than 10 workers.

In Nueva Vizcaya, workers can expect a daily minimum wage of P248 for non-agriculture, P236 for agriculture, P240 for retail or service firms with more than 10 workers, and P213 for those that employ less than 10 people.

The new wage rates in Quirino and Batanes are P247 for the non-agriculture sector, P235 for the agriculture sector, P239 for retail or service firms employing more than 10 workers, and P212 for those employing less than 10 people.

Cagayan Valley workers last got a P10 wage hike in February last year after two years of no pay increases.