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                    [Title] => House freezes wage hike bill
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Apparently bowing to pressure from President Arroyo and the business community, the House of Representatives has frozen the bill that seeks a P125 across-the-board wage hike for private sector workers.


Nearly two months after approving Bill 345 on third and final reading, the House has not submitted it to the Senate because Deputy Minority Leader Jesus Crispin Remulla has presented a motion to reverse the approval.


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The House of Representatives intends to recall its approval of the P125 wage increase bill even after the Senate labor committee decided to adopt the measure to expedite its enactment into law.


"We will reconsider its final and third-reading approval so we can correct its constitutional defect," Majority Leader Prospero Nograles told The STAR yesterday.


He said the proposed P125 increase in the minimum wage cannot be retroactive to July 2006 as written in the bill "because that is against the Constitution."


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                    [Title] => Teachers unhappy with P1,500 pay increase
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Public school teachers are dissatisfied with the proposed pay increase of P1,500 for more than a million government workers.


"We are thankful that Malacañang realized the need to augment our income. On the other hand, what is P1,500 compared to the inflation we experienced from year 2001?" asked Benjo Basas, a Caloocan City teacher and chairperson of the Teachers Dignity Coalition (TDC). 


Basas noted that public school teachers and other government employees have already been suffering from a five-year wage freeze since 2001.


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                    [Title] => House set to approve P1,500 wage hike
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The House of Representatives will approve the proposed P1,500 across-the-board salary increase for the more than one million government workers when Congress resumes session later this month.


"We will approve it. I see no problem in passing the wage hike bill for government personnel," Majority Leader Prospero Nograles told The STAR yesterday.


Nograles said as soon as the measure is filed and the appropriate committee endorses it, he would schedule it for plenary deliberations.


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                    [Title] => Administration lawmakers seek caucus with GMA on Cha-cha
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Administration congressmen sought a caucus yesterday with President Arroyo to clear up the confusion on what she really wants to do with her Charter change (Cha-cha) initiative.


In a joint statement, Representatives Edwin Uy of Isabela and Eduardo Veloso of Leyte said it would be best for Mrs. Arroyo "to set the records straight if amending the Constitution is indeed the right path for the betterment of the country."


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                    [Title] => House approves on final reading bill granting P125 wage hike
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The House of Representatives approved on third and final reading on Wednesday night a bill granting a P125 increase in workers’ daily wage.


Majority Leader Prospero Nograles told reporters yesterday that the approval of the salary increase is a victory for workers and their representatives in Congress who have been lobbying for it since the 11th Congress in 1998.


He said the P125 would be given in three installments over a three-year period: P45 on the first year, P40 on the second year and P40 on the third. 


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                    [Title] => Senate, House on collision course over budget
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The Senate and the House of Representatives are on a collision course over the proposed P1.126 trillion 2007 budget.


Some senators have accused congressmen of bloating the budget submitted by Malacañang by P8 billion in pork barrel funds.


But according to Albay Rep. Joey Salceda, House appropriations committee chairman, congressmen just realigned P8 billion in interest payments to infrastructure projects.


"We did not bloat the budget. The ceiling of P1.126 trillion remains the same," he said.


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                    [Title] => House opens floor debates on ’07 budget
                    [Summary] => The House of Representatives started plenary debates last night on President Arroyo’s proposed P1.13-trillion 2007 budget.


Sponsoring the money measure, Albay Rep. Joey Salceda, appropriations committee chairman, likened the budget to a "record book of the rebates that will be given back to the people."


He said it is his and his colleagues’ duty to see to it that their constituents get their fair share of such rebates.


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                    [Title] => ‘Plan B’ ilalatag ni JDV
                    [Summary] => Ngayon pa lang ay may nakahanda nang plano ang mga pro-Charter change solons kung saan gagamitin nila ang "Plan B" sakaling ibasura ng Supreme Court ang people’s initiative petition na inihain ng mga Chacha advocates.


Ayon kay Speaker Jose de Venecia, ang kanilang plan B ay kinabibilangan ng Constituent Assembly (Con-Ass) approach at joint session ng mga Senador at Congressmen.


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MAJORITY LEADER PROSPERO NOGRALES

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                    [Title] => House freezes wage hike bill
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Apparently bowing to pressure from President Arroyo and the business community, the House of Representatives has frozen the bill that seeks a P125 across-the-board wage hike for private sector workers.


Nearly two months after approving Bill 345 on third and final reading, the House has not submitted it to the Senate because Deputy Minority Leader Jesus Crispin Remulla has presented a motion to reverse the approval.


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The House of Representatives intends to recall its approval of the P125 wage increase bill even after the Senate labor committee decided to adopt the measure to expedite its enactment into law.


"We will reconsider its final and third-reading approval so we can correct its constitutional defect," Majority Leader Prospero Nograles told The STAR yesterday.


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"We will approve it. I see no problem in passing the wage hike bill for government personnel," Majority Leader Prospero Nograles told The STAR yesterday.


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In a joint statement, Representatives Edwin Uy of Isabela and Eduardo Veloso of Leyte said it would be best for Mrs. Arroyo "to set the records straight if amending the Constitution is indeed the right path for the betterment of the country."


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Majority Leader Prospero Nograles told reporters yesterday that the approval of the salary increase is a victory for workers and their representatives in Congress who have been lobbying for it since the 11th Congress in 1998.


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He said it is his and his colleagues’ duty to see to it that their constituents get their fair share of such rebates.


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Ayon kay Speaker Jose de Venecia, ang kanilang plan B ay kinabibilangan ng Constituent Assembly (Con-Ass) approach at joint session ng mga Senador at Congressmen.


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