Senate OKs Jinggoy’s bill on DH’s salary rise
12/14/2010The Senate yesterday approved on third and final reading Senate Bill 78 which will increase the minimum wage of house helpers or “kasambahays” and will provide them with additional benefits.
Introduced by Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada, Senate Bill 78, otherwise known as the “Act of Providing for Additional Benefits and Protection to House Helpers,” requires employers to pay a minimum wage of at least P2,500 to house helpers within Metro Manila, at least P2,000 for those in chartered cities and first class municipalities, and at least P1,500 for those working in third class municipalities.
Under the measure, Estrada said employers are mandated to shoulder the premiums for their house helpers’ benefits in the Social Security System (SSS), Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth), Home Development Mutual Fund or PagIBIG and the Employees Compensation Commission (ECC).
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, for his part, said that it was “high time that kasambahays are given the recognition that they duly deserve..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20101214hed6.html
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