JOIN this Councils of Stakeholders which is a framework for interlinking organizations, enterprises and individuals upholding the vision of an alternative compassionate economy and promoting association-building practices for the Bayanihan exchange of goods,services, information, knowledge, affection and mutual support among their members.
The stakeholders are divided into service providers, investors, youth, consumers
and producers.
Let me know of your interest and I shall refer you to this network.
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MOST OF US DO NOT EARN A DAILY LIVING WAGE.
Supposedly only 56.5 % of the labor force have full time jobs of 40 hrs a week.
In Metro Manila there is a 17.4 percent unemployment rate, the balance are underemployed or not enough work.
On the average 3,000 leave the country every day. Manny Arejola says that in ten years time, the population to be left behind are the very young and the very old.
The productive age of 20 to 45 will be mostly abroad. Imagine the social cost on the family, an absent father or mother or both.
Annulment and family law cases comprise 80 percent of the cases pending in the Manila Family courts (only 7 judges), the other 20 percent of the cases are handled by the 50 judges.
The growth are of employment are the call centers that pay you P57 per hour or more.
The export market is growing to US$40 billion a year, Overseas Filipinos remit
10 to 20 Billion dollars a year depending on which statistic you read.
The jueteng business gives a family in San Fernando Pampanga 300 pesos to 1000 pesos a day, several millions to the other officials, billions of untaxed income.
The shabu trade is equally enormous and sustained by the 1.2 million regular users
of drugs.
With that as a background, do we need a minimum wage. NO, we do not as entrepreneurs should rather look into profit sharing and stock options for their co-workers. What is offering ten percent of your buisness or company to be offered to your key people and profit sharing based on teamwork productivity. Read my fathers Luis V. Sison) Thesis that he submitted in the Ateneo de Manila MBA in 1966
entitled the Scanlon Plan (on profit sharing) that he applied in Amspec, PDCP and MWSS. This is more equitable and Christian and in response to the need for the living wage.
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