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President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. wants a revival of the labor sector gravely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, incoming Department of Labor and Employment secretary Bienvenido Laguesma said yesterday.

Over 800 vendors and other informal workers in the National Capital Region have received P20 million in cash and livelihood assistance from the Department of Labor and Employment.

Minimum wage earners in Central Visayas are getting an increase of P31 in their daily take-home pay, the Department of Labor and Employment announced yesterday.

Dole plc (NYSE: DOLE) ("Dole" or the "Group" or the "Company") has today released its financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2022. Highlights for Q1'22: Revenue of $2.2 billion

Executive chairman Carl McCann says company pleased with first-quarter results

Minimum wage earners in the Bicol region and the Cordilleras will receive increases in their daily take-home pay.

The new minimum wage rates in the National Capital Region and Western Visayas (Region 6) shall take effect early next month, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III announced yesterday.

In a statement, DOLE said the National Wages Productivity Commission met on Friday and "reviewed and affirmed" the wage hikes for the two regions through the issuance of various wage orders.

"What we want to happen is that wage increases should be based on data," Tanjusay said. 

About 20,000 overseas Filipino workers assured of jobs in Saudi Arabia are stranded in the Philippines because of a Department of Labor and Employment order suspending deployment until giant Saudi construction firms settle the unpaid wages of some 11,000 Filipino employees.