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Sunday, November 26, 2017
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ILOILO City – All house helps, or kasambahay, in Western Visayas are now entitled to a P3,500 minimum monthly wage.
The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board-approved Wage Order No. 2, published last Thursday, prescribed the new minimum wage rate.
It shall take effect 15 days after publication, or starting Dec. 8.
In the previous wage order, domestic workers in cities and first-class municipalities received a minimum of P2,500 a month and those in other towns, P2,000.
The new wage order eliminates the classification based on location of employment and sets a uniform minimum rate, said Wennie Sancho, wage board labor representative.
The classification was “confusing and discriminatory,” he said, noting that the expenses of house helps in any locality in the region were almost similar.
“The gravity of their work is the same,” Sancho added. “They all deserve a higher and common wage.”
Wage Order No. 2 shall apply to all domestic workers, whether in a live-in or live-out arrangement, such as but not limited to general house help, yaya (nanny), cook, gardener, laundry person, and any person who regularly performs work in a household on an occupational basis.
The order does not cover service providers, family drivers, children under foster families, and any other person who performs work occasionally or sporadically and not on an occupational basis. (PNA)
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