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The Wage Rationalization Act, or Republic Act 6727, was enacted in 1989 and it is the ruling law regarding minimum wage rates. It established the National Wages and Productivity Commission which has supervision over Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Boards, which ultimately decide on minimum wage rates.
Article 99 of the Labor Code of the Philippines stipulates that an employer may go over but never below minimum wage. Paying below the minimum wage is illegal. [10] The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Boards is the body that sets the amount for the minimum wage. In the Philippines, the minimum wage of a worker depends on where he works.
Minimum wage schedules set pay by occupation; for example, the minimum wage for domestic workers, for example, was EC$4.5 per hour, while that for a security guard was EC$8 per hour. [10] 40 2017 Guatemala: Q 81.87 (US$10.9) per day for agricultural and nonagricultural work and Q 74.89 (US$10) per day for work in export-sector regime factories ...
Workers in Michigan saw a modest minimum-wage increase in 2021, to $10.10 from $9.87. Tipped workers, who make 38% of the regular minimum wage by law, saw their wage rise to $3.84.
The following states raised their minimum wage in 2021, either by legislation or ballot measure: ... the city of Portland will increase its minimum wage to $13, $14 and then $15 at the beginning ...
State legislatures have responded across the nation, and currently, 21 states are slated to put 2017 minimum wage increases into effect.
3% wage increase February 1989 $5.48 $208.37 10.0% wage increase August 1989 $5.64 $214.49 3% + 3% wage increase March–April $5.64 $214.49 No wage increase April 1991 $6.59 $250.45 2.5% wage increase April 1992 $6.59 $250.45 No wage increase November 1993 $6.80 $258.45 $8.00 wage increase September 1994 $7.01 $266.45 $8.00 wage increase
In 2021, a Congressional Budget Office report concluded that boosting the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour would raise incomes for millions of Americans and lift 900,000 people out of poverty ...