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NWPC BULLETINVolume 19 v Number 5 www.nwpc.dole.gov.ph May 2015
May 2015 News
Summary of Minimum Wage Ratesas of May 26, 2015
Region’s Wage Order Highest Minimum
wage
Effectivity date
Wage Order No. RB NCR-19 P481.00 April 4, 2015
Wage Order No. RB CAR-16 P280.00 February 3, 2014
Wage Order No. RB I-16 P253.00 February 5, 2014
Wage Order No. RB II-16 P255.00 January 5, 2014
Wage Order No. RB III-18 P349.00 November 30, 2014
Wage Order No. RB IVA-16 P362.50 May 1, 2014
Wage Order No. RB IVB-06 P275.00 February 1, 2013
Wage Order No. RB V-16 P260.00 January 10, 2014
Wage Order No. RB VI-22 P298.50 May 2, 2015
Wage Order No. RB VII-18A P340.00 December 14, 2014
Wage Order No. RB VIII-17 P262.00 March 30, 2015
Wage Order No. RB IX-I8 P280.00 June 10, 2013
Wage Order No. RB X-17 P306.00 June 20, 2013
Wage Order No. RB XI-18 P317.00 June 1, 2014
Wage Order No. RB XII-18 P275.00 August 1, 2014
Wage Order No. RXIII-13 P268.00 February 14, 2015
Wage Order No. ARMM-15 P250.00 February 1, 2014
NWPC BULLETIN
Executive Director
Maria Criselda R. Sy
Deputy Executive Directors
Patricia P. Hornilla
Jeanette T. Damo
Directors
Elvira P. Jota
Atty. Welma T. Sicangco
Atty. Jamie-Lyn Jamias-Garcia
Editor-in-Chief
Managing Editor
Jem Samonte
Lourdes M. Secillano
Jerome P. Lucas
Photographer
Romy O. Paleza
Editorial Board
Executive Director Maria
Criselda R. Sy joined the
business leaders, economists,
policy-makers, executives, and
management practitioners in
the 36th National Conference of
Employers last May 14-15 at the
Marriott Hotel, Manila.
With the theme, “The
Ultimate Challenge: Creating
More Wealth, Creating More
Jobs,” the conference aimed at
generating jobs in the upcoming
years to ensure poverty allevia-
tion and sustenance of economic
development.
Exec. Dir. Sy talked about
“Ensuring Inclusive Growth
through Enhanced Employment
and Employability.” The event
was also an avenue for Exec.
Dir. Sy to promote the second
tier, the voluntary component
of the two-tiered wage system
NWPC, RTWPBs join the Labor Day celebration
As regional arms of the
Department of Labor and
Employment, the NWPC and its
RTWPBs performed its duties to
the public as part of the Labor
Day celebration with the theme
"Disenteng Trabaho at Kabuhay-
an, Alay Natin sa Bayan".
Selected NWPC staff,
alongside with other DOLE and
other government agencies’
employees served the job seek-
ers during the job fair held at the
Philippine International Conven-
tion Center (PICC) in Pasay City
last May 1. The NWPC staff who
seated in the legal desk, assis-
ted the job seekers who wanted
to seek answers on wage and
productivity matters.
In regions, the hundred-
old celebration of workers was
held at various malls, sports
complex, and convention cent-
ers. The Regional Tripartite
Wages and Productivity Boards
(RTWPBs) secretariat partici-
pated in venues to render assis-
tance to workers with concerns
on wages and productivity. The
celebration featured a job fair to
cater the fresh graduates and a
Service Caravan to address the
needs of the existing labor force
in the region.
Aside from the usual
employment opportunities offered
to the job seekers, the annual
celebration provided medical and
legal assistance, employment
facilitation, pre-employment
documentation, and skills
demonstrations.
According to Secretary
Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz, the
industries with the most number
of vacancies are manufacturing
(12.9%); transport, storage, and
communication (6.7%); other
community, social, and perso-
nal service activity (5.8%); and
wholesale and retail trade; repair
of motor vehicles, motorcycles,
and personal household goods
(4.6%).
NWPC chief tackles Enhanced Employment and Employability during ECOP’s 35th National Conference of Employers
which grants incentives to work-
ers based on improvements in
productivity or performance.
Other sessions during the
conference were: 1) opportuni-
ties and strategies for job crea-
The NWPC offi cials and staff participated in a
seminar-workshop entitled “Setting the Founda-
tion for QMS” conducted by the President and Sen-
ior Consultant and Product Developer of Rosehall
Management Consultants, Inc. Ms. Rosario H. Quin-
tos at the Employees Compensation Commission’s
Conference Room last May 19-20.
The NWPC chief said that the Commis-
sion targeted ISO certifi cation to serve as a mod-
el agency on productivity improvement. “We need
to serve our clients in the most effi cient and most
effective manner; we ought it to them. We need to
prove to our stakeholders and out clients that we are
true to our mandate in promoting productivity,” she
said.
The seminar-workshop oriented the par-
ticipants on the requirements of setting up a QMS,
focusing on management responsibility and com-
mitment, identifi cation of clients and stakehol-
ders and determination of internal and external
NWPC targets ISO Certifi cation, conducts seminar-workshop
factors affecting an organization. The participants
were also guided in the use of various tools for
purposes of identifying and mapping the organiza-
tion’s processes and setting process performance
measures.
Ms. Cecilia M. Fabian, one of Rosehall’s
consultants on quality management, health and
safety management, and food safety management
assisted Ms. Quintos during the workshop.
tion and poverty reduction; 2) the ever-changing
role of employers in addressing societal issues;
3) preserving development gains amidst regional
economic changes; 4) Social partners forum: policy
recommendations for resolving employment and
poverty issues; 5) doing well and doing good: how
corporations can help address poverty and unem-
ployment.
Last April, ECOP President Edgardo Lac-
son already signifi ed support to the wage reform,
saying that since the implementation, the reform
has done “signifi cant reduction in the politics of
minimum wage fi xing.”
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DOLE Undersecretary Reydeluz D.
Conferido said during the press conference at the
PICC that while the opportunities being offered during
the job fairs required work experience, the DOLE is
responsive to address job matching by providing
labor market information, online job opportunities, and
trainings.
Based on the reports of the DOLE regional
offi ces as of May 4, there were a total of 73,763
registered job applicants; 88,578 job applicant inter-
views; 54,607 qualifi ed/referred job applicants; 11,508
hired on the spot; and 46,456 near hire applicants.
Aside from DOLE agencies, the Labor Day
celebration was participated by the various emplo-yers
and other government agencies.
Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity
Board - II conducted a Service Quality (SQ)
Training for the members of the Sta. Ana Hotel
and Restaurant Association (SAHARA) on April
16, 2015 in Sta. Ana, Cagayan.
While the RTWPB presented the soft
skill for Service Quality, the Technical Education
and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) in
Cagayan encouraged the SAHARA members to
avail of their programs to improve the hard skills
of their workforce.
The RTWPB upholds the Tourism Sup-
ply Chain (TSC) framework in presenting the
SQ Program. The TSC is a network of tourism
stakeholders engaged in different activities rang-
ing from the supply of different components of
tourism products/services to the distribution and
RTWPB-II continues Productivity Intervention for Sta. Ana Tourism Industry Stakeholders
Building Partnerships
in Promoting Service Quality
Since NWPC rolled out its Service Quality (SQ)
training program in 2011, the RTWPBs have trained a
total of 538 fi rms and 1,411 owners and workers, nation-
wide, on the concept and simple technologies to ensure
of service quality or error-free service to clients.
The value chain approach in promoting produc-
tivity in the tourism industry started in Region IX under
then DOLE-Regional Director and RTWPB Chairperson
Ponciano M. Ligutom. DOLE-IX launched its 3Y pro-
gram, a convergence of national and local govern-
ment agencies, the academe, and other local partners
aimed at boosting job opportunities towards increased
workers’ employability, productivity, and service quality in
Zamboanga del Norte’s tourism industry.
A similar project was implemented in Region
VI in cooperation with the local government units, vari-
ous national government
agencies and private sector
fi rms, called the Pier to Port
Project (P2P) – an enhance-
ment of the Service Qual-
ity Program. Its goal was to
address the gaps in service
quality and to consequently
improve the quality of life in
the islands of Boracay and
Guimaras. Last 30 Janu-
ary 2015, NWPC Executive
Productivity training interventions for the tourism value chain
Two Senior and Labor Employment
Offi cers from the Policy and Research
Service (PRS), Mr. Henry M. Kakazu and
Maria Corazon P. Caritativo attended the
training on Statistics for Policy Analysis last
May 11-15 in Diliman, Quezon City.
Organized by the Philippine Statisti-
cal Research and Training Institute (PSRTI)
formerly known as the Statistical Research
and Training Center (SRTC), the training
aimed at building the capacities of govern-
ment personnel in evidence-based policy
review and formulation.
The training included modules on
basic statistical concepts, summary mea-
sures, ratios and proportions, regression
analysis, policy analysis framework, data
presentation and writing policy briefs.
The training is part of the competen-
cy-based training plan to improve the capa-
bilities of its personnel to effectively deliver
the programs and projects of the NWPC.
NWPC offi cers attend training on Statistics
for Policy Analysis
marketing of the fi nal tourism product and involves
a wide range of participants in both the private and
public sectors.
Last year, the banca and tricycle operators in
Sta.Ana, whose services form part of the TSC, were
the benefi ciaries of the program. It was in coordina-
tion with the local government unit of Sta.Ana and
the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (CEZA).
The RTWPB is also coordinating with the
SAHARA members for the conduct of an orientation
within the year in line with the Productivity Improve-
ment Enterprise (PIE) Program.
Each of the nine (9) participant-fi rms crafted
an action plan for Productivity Improvement Pro-
gram (PIP) to be implemented within six (6) months
after the training.
NWPC, RTWPBs join ... from page 1
Director Maria Criselda R. Sy attended a MOA Signing
on the Pier to Port Program at Boracay, Malay, Aklan
together with DOLE -VI Regional Director Ponciano M.
Ligutom, RTWPB-VI Board Secretary Nesa S. Nolido,
and the Mayor John P. Yap of Malay, Aklan, sealing the
partnership and commitment to service quality.
In 2014, RTWPB II launched the Service Qual-
ity Value Chain for the Tourism Industry Stakeholders in
Cauayan City, Isabela and conducted SQ Training for
Tourism Supply Chain in Sta. Ana, Cagayan last July 11-
12, 2014.
In NCR, the RTWPB conducted the “Service
Quality Training for Tourist Police Auxiliary Brigade” in
partnership with Public Employment Service Offi ce-
Pasay. The board also conducted a similar training
program to padyak operators and drivers in Intramuros,
Manila in partnership with local government of Manila
and Barangay 657.
In Caraga, the RTWPB worked with the Butuan
City Airport, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines
(CAAP) and the City Government of Butuan in identifying
areas for improvement as well as in the actual conduct of
the service quality training program.
Service Quality Seal of Recognition
Last April 20, DOLE Secretary Rosalinda
Dimapilis-Baldoz visited the Bicol region and awarded the
Service Quality Seal of Recognition to three establishments
namely: 1) Hotel St. Ellis, 2) La Piazza Hotel and Conven-
tion Center, and 3) Ninong’s Hotel. Having been SQ-trained,
these establishments have mplemented and sustained their
SQ productivity improvement programs. They have also
been awarded certifi cates of compliance with general la-
bor standards and/or occupational safety and health (GLS/
OSH).
Creating Productivity Champions and Specialists
In 2014, the second round of training partner-
ship of the NWPC with Temasek Foundation (TF) and
Nanyang Polytechnic International (NYPi) produced
fi ve batches of productivity champions and specialists
including participants from other government agen-
cies (DA, DTI, DOST, and DOT)
and social partners (ECOP,
FFCCCII, PALSCON, TUCP, and
FFW).
The expanded training col-
laboration aimed at strengthening
the convergence programs involv-
ing other government agencies and
social partners as part of the value-
chain strategy towards enhancing
the productivity and employability of
workers and advancing the competitiveness of enterprises.
Issuance of Wage Advisory on Tourism Industry
In 2014, six Regional Boards have issued
industry-specifi c advisories to guide workers and enterprises
in developing and implementing productivity-based incentive
schemes over and above the mandatory minimum wage.
The advisories were issued by RTWPBs NCR, CAR, I, III,
IV-B and VII.
Sustainability and Change
To ensure the sustainability of the SQ training
program nationwide, the NWPC in partnership with the
International Labour Organization also implemented the
Greener Business Asia - Green Me training program which
focuses on building sustainable enterprises and harnessing
workplace cooperation in the use of environment-friendly
resources and work processes.
In relation to this, various trainings on the
Green Me module for the tourism industry were
conducted in Batangas (May 2014), Palawan (May 2014),
Tagaytay (July 2014), and Bohol (September 2014), involving
trainers and tourism industry workers.