Daily Pay Rates Hiked
From Reuters
MANILA, Philippines —
President Corazon Aquino signed into law Friday a bill raising the daily basic wage in the Philippines. The law raises the $3.05 daily wage by $1.20 for industrial workers in metropolitan Manila. It grants a 95-cent increase to private-sector workers in selected cities and provinces and gives an extra 71 cents to workers elsewhere in the country.
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