Judge halts salary hike for minimum wage earners in Bohol

Judge Jorge Cabalit of the Regional Trial Court Branch 48 in Bohol ordered the Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Board in Central Visayas and the Department of Labor and Employment to hold the implementation of Wage Order No. ROVII-22.

Two business groups — Bohol Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc. and the Bohol Association of Hotels, Resorts and Restaurants Inc. — filed a petition before the RTC in Bohol questioning the reclassification of Tagbilaran City under Class B, which resulted in the imposition of a higher wage hike of P28 per day as compared to other cities, including Class A Cebu City, which will have a pay increase of P18 per day.

“The reclassification of Tagbilaran City from Class C to becoming Class B is rather new to the Boholanos, which puzzled the Boholano business community and confuses even the City Government of Tagbilaran, Bohol, as they themselves have no knowledge of such change of category,” the petition said.“This reclassification was never discussed or raised during the public hearing held last October 11, 2019,” said Marapao.

The petitioners said that a P28 salary increase resulting in a P366 minimum wage in Tagbilaran City would deter the growth of micro enterprises, and would cause downsizing on the side of the large ones, and would definitely result to the surging of unemployment, displacement of workers in the province and in Central Visayas .

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