Sen. Ramon Revilla, Jr. on Tuesday said the latest proposed legislated wage hike may only be only P100 a day now, but “we vow to not stop here.”
“We are always closely monitoring and looking for ways to alleviate your living condition through additional help,” Revilla said, addressing low wage earners.
This can be done, he said, through salary increases and benefits, which you have been enjoying now.
He commended the Senate after it passed on third and final reading Monday the P100 legislated wage increase.
Senators passed Senate Bill No. 2534 that aims to provide for a P100 increase on the daily minimum wage of employees and workers in the private sector. Revilla is a co-author of the measure after his Senate Bill No. 2018 was consolidated into the substitute bill.
“It’s been a long time coming,” said Revilla.
“In the end, after the long wait, the fight here in the Senate is over,” he said.
According to the senator, it is clear that the workers always have an ally in the Senate to push for their rights and future and to fight for their welfare.
Revilla has been championing wage increase bills since his first term as a senator. He also filed similar measures during the 14th, 15th, 16th, 18th congresses.
The approved bill shall now be transmitted to the House of Representatives for their concurrence.
Revilla hopes that his colleagues in the said chamber would also pass such beneficial law.
“Let us endeavor to work with our counterparts in the House so that they, too, would be convinced of the value of this proposal and the significance this will make in the lives of the labor sector.
“We need here to show our cooperation for the Filipino people,” he said.