As of Jan. 4, 2025, the minimum wage for household helpers in Metro Manila has been increased from P6,500 to P7,000 per month. This change is based on Wage Order NCR-DW-05 issued by the Regional ...

Cagayan Valley (Region 2), Davao Region (Region 11) and Caraga (Region 13) had 100 percent utilization ... the Department of Labor and Employment and the National Economic and Development Authority ...

The Philippine Statistics Authority-Davao Region reported a slight decline in the region's labor force participation rate in October 2024. However, the employment rate increased, and the unemployment ...

Increases in appropriations and new budgetary items introduced in the 2025 national budget will only be released once the ...

A total of 5,115 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) from the province of Agusan del Sur received their Certificate of Condonation with Release of Mortgage (COCROM), recently organized by the ...

Feeling that they were being “shortchanged,” mayors across the country asked the Department of Finance (DOF) for a full ...

Local officials of Davao Oriental are upbeat with the upcoming implementation of proposed infrastructure for the revival of ...

A total of 4,907,584 minimum wage earners in 14 regions benefited from salary adjustments in the country in 2024, the ...

From March to early June, several areas in Caraga, Zamboanga Peninsula ... The opening of the bridge is expected to spur economic activities in the region.

RTWPB-5 continuously assesses the economic situation in the Bicol Region ... The latest was the board in the Caraga Region, which granted a P50 daily wage hike for private sector workers to ...

The AKAP funds were allocated across the country and almost all regions achieved more than 99 percent in fund obligations, with Cagayan Valley (Region 2), Davao Region (Region 11), and Caraga (Region ...