http://carlosconde.com/2007/01/04/philippine-business-groups-denounce-minimum-wage-increase/ Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:11:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://carlosconde.com/2007/01/04/philippine-business-groups-denounce-minimum-wage-increase/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Grace Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:08:32 +0000 http://carlosconde.com/2007/01/04/philippine-business-groups-denounce-minimum-wage-increase/#comment-28 why?! don't these businessmen understand that higher pay drives the economy when money rolls from the consumer to market to consumer? do they have a microscopic view or just plain greed? why?!
don’t these businessmen understand that higher pay drives the economy when money rolls from the consumer to market to consumer?
do they have a microscopic view or just plain greed?

]]> http://carlosconde.com/2007/01/04/philippine-business-groups-denounce-minimum-wage-increase/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Davao Today -- News, commentary, analysis, reports from Davao City, Mindanao, the Philippines Fri, 05 Jan 2007 03:59:25 +0000 http://carlosconde.com/2007/01/04/philippine-business-groups-denounce-minimum-wage-increase/#comment-14 [...] There’s a raging debate now about the recent passage by Congress of a 125-peso across-the-board salary increase. On the one hand, workers and unionists insist that this increase, such as it is, is long overdue. On the other hand, businesses have denounced the increase as not only a product of political posturing by congressmen (to curry favor from the public in this year’s election) but also harmful to the economy in the long run. [...] [...] There’s a raging debate now about the recent passage by Congress of a 125-peso across-the-board salary increase. On the one hand, workers and unionists insist that this increase, such as it is, is long overdue. On the other hand, businesses have denounced the increase as not only a product of political posturing by congressmen (to curry favor from the public in this year’s election) but also harmful to the economy in the long run. [...]

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