Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri last week filed Senate Bill No. 2002, or the Across-the-Board Wage Increase Act of 2023, seeking to raise wages in the private sector nationwide by P150. “A decent life costs a decent wage,” Zubiri said. “If workers are putting in hours and hours of labor, day after day, and yet are still unable to afford their rent, bills, and basic necessities, then there is a problem.” Currently, the National Capital
By its recent decisions and its new reform program, the Supreme Court, I am happy to note, is continuing the activist and libertarian streaks of its predecessors. Among these decisions are Vhong Navarro v. Deniece Cornejo (Feb. 8, 2023) that struck down the weaponization of preliminary investigations (PI); Ditiangkin v. Lazada (Sept. 21, 2022) that, per an Inquirer editorial, was a “(g)ame-changing ruling for workers”; Reyes v. Director (Jan. 17, 2023) that freed Gigi Reyes for serious violations of her constitutional rights; and PCGG v. Ombudsman (Jan. 17, 2023) that acquitted the late Roberto Ongpin. On reforms, I am referring
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