Daily Tribune
Labor groups are restive over the decision of the administration to increase by P200 the daily subsistence allowance of military personnel.
Trade unions and other organizations in the labor sector said that if allowances in the Armed Forces of the Philippines could be raised by P200, then the P200 daily minimum wage increase approved by the House of Representatives on second reading should be enacted. The Senate earlier passed a P100 increase to the daily minimum wage.
Under Executive Order 84 signed on 14 March, the daily subsistence allowance for AFP officers and enlisted personnel was retroactively raised from P150 to P350 from 1 January 2025.
The EO was signed days after President Rodrigo Duterte was hauled off to the International Criminal Court last 11 March after disembarking from his flight from Hongkong.
Labor groups claim the daily minimum wage across the country, ranging from P361 in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao to P645 in the National Capital Region, are not only below the poverty line but also fall short of the Ateneo Policy Center’s estimated cost of the government’s daily healthy food guide for a family of five of P693.30 per day.
A Quezon City lawmaker is in serious trouble after his wife discovered his secret hideaway in a posh subdivision, far from his district.
Unbeknownst to the lawmaker, his wife tailed him to the Casa Milan subdivision in Fairview where the love nest is located.
Controlling herself, the wife, who is a city councilor, went to the police to seek assistance.
In a letter, the Quezon City Police District asked the subdivision security force for footage of their closed-circuit TV cameras as the wife of the first-term congressman who is seeking reelection is contemplating a lawsuit against the lovers.
Nosy Tarsees at City Hall are wondering if the congressman will follow the lead of the district coordinator who died after his wife caught him in an affair with his secretary.
The district coordinator reportedly died of a heart attack but the “maritesses” at City Hall were telling a different story — that the official who got his secretary pregnant committed suicide out of humiliation.
It was an epic scandal since the secretary was his niece.
