Labor group blasts DoLE, wage panels

By William B. Depasupil

Apr 29, 2024 12:16 am

A LABOR group has called out the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLe) and the National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) for ignoring the constitutional rights of more than 4 million private sector workers to a living wage.

The Associated Labor Unions (ALU), one of the largest labor federations in the country, said that under the Wage Rationalization Act (Republic Act 6727), living wage tops the 10 criteria in determining wages, but it has been ignored for the last 35 years.

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