February 14, 2021 EMPLOYERS believe that granting the proposed P100 daily wage hike will impact especially the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) which are struggling to survive amid the coronavirus pandemic, and can result in a rise in unemployment. “The P100 wage increase was requested for a number of years. It did not prosper before the pandemic hit, much more now with the coronavirus? The chances are very nil that it will prosper,” Employers Confederation of the Philippines president Sergio Ortiz-Luis Jr. said in Filipino in a radio interview. Ortiz-Luis Jr. said some MSMEs remained closed amid the pandemic, some are still undecided on business reopening, while others adopt rotation of workers schemes.