MANILA, Philippines — Wage authorities will include domestic helpers’ salaries in their study of a possible adjustment in the minimum wage amid rising fuel prices prompted by the conflict in
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III has ordered all the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Boards to include in their review the possibility of raising the mandated minimum monthly salary of household helpers.Earlier this month Bello ordered all wage boards to study the possibility of increasing the minimum wage for all workers, as he cited the “skyrocketing prices of oil products caused by the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
Across the country’s 17 regions, the mandated minimum monthly pay of domestic helpers averages P3,700 for those working in cities and first-class municipalities and P3,400 for those working in any of the rest of the municipalities.But in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao , the minimum wage is set at a daily rate of P325, in accordance with a 2019 order by the Bangsamoro Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board.
For live-out household workers, the pay ranged from P2,739 in the BARMM to P6,202 in the National Capital Region. The period of 2018 to early 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic, saw the last wage adjustments so far for all workers.
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