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"For many grassroots level Taiwanese laborers, the annual minimum wage hike is the only way to get a salary increase," Son said.

To recall, it already petitioned for a P710 wage hike for Metro Manila and P386 in Central Visayas.

This is in light of a petition filed by the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) seeking a P710 across-the-board wage hike for Metro Manila workers.

Family drivers, children under foster family arrangement and those who perform domestic work occasionally are not covered by the wage hike. The wage order mandates payment of salaries of domestic workers in cash at least once a month.

"We are not hitting President Duterte or the government with the wage hike petition, we are just telling the decision makers there is an urgent need to raise wages so that people can live decently.

"I worry the momentum towards wage hikes may weaken as underlying inflation remains weak and there is a strong sense of uncertainty," said Hisashi Yamada, senior economist at Japan Research Institute.

Minister of Plantation Industries Navin Dissanayake and Labor Trade Union Relations and Social Empowerment Minister Daya Gamage had separate talks with plantation companies and trade unions today on the demand for a wage hike.

"The minimum wage hike and reduction in work hours should be moderate, considering the conditions of each industry sector," one of the respondents said.

The United Forum of Banking Unions (UFBU), an umbrella body of nine bank unions has called for a nationwide bank strike against wage hike proposed by the Indian Banks' Association (IBA).

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Pushing for a wage hike is an election-year tactic that's borne fruit in the past for Democrats.