LAWMAKERS are again pushing bills to increase wages, measures that can adversely impact the economy. At the House of Representatives, the so-called Makabayan bloc proposed to raise the salary of public school teachers to P50,000. And at the Senate, a committee had approved on second reading an initiative to increase the minimum wage by P100.

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