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MANILA, Philippines — Akbayan Rep. Percival Cendaña and eight labor groups on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to nullify the orders issued by the Pasig City Regional Trial Court (RTC) suspending the P85 increase in the minimum wage for Metro Manila workers.
“The Supreme Court, as the final bulwark of justice in our country, must indubitably step in and correct this ignominy that is threatening to erode the trust of the public in our wage-fixing system,” the petitioners said.
On July 24, Judge Achilles Balauitan of Pasig RTC Branch 154 issued a status quo order against National Capital Region Wage Order No. 27 which granted the increase.
This was after two construction companies sought judicial relief against the wage hike, which was supposed to take effect on July 25 with the grant of P65 as first tranche of the raise.
