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SANDOVAL-GUTIERREZ, J.:
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ARTICLE IV
B. For SUPERVISORS
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3 Rollo, NCR-AC-No.-00112, p. 2.
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618 SUPREME COURT REPORTS ANNOTATED
P.I. Manufacturing, Incorporated, vs. P.I. Manufacturing
Supervisors and Foremen Association
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When the law sets, or authorizes the setting of a minimum wage for
laborers, and a contract is agreed upon by which a laborer accepts a lower
wage, he shall be entitled to recover the deficiency.
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6 Azucena, The Labor Code with Comments and Cases, Vol. 1, p. 301.
7 Rollo, NCR-AC-No. 00112, p. 120.
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8 Supra, footnote 1.
9 316 Phil. 355; 246 SCRA 289 (1995).
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sector: (1) P10.00 per day for the employees in the private
sector, whether agricultural or non-agricultural, who are
receiving the statutory minimum wage rates; (2) P11.00 per
day for non-agricultural workers and employees outside
Metro Manila; and (3) P10.00 per day for those already
receiving the minimum wage up to P100.00. To be
sure, only those receiving wages P100.00 and below are
entitled to the P10.00 wage increase. The apparent
intention of the law is only to upgrade the salaries10
or wages of the employees specified therein. As the
numerical illustration shows, almost all of the members of
respondent PIMASUFA have been receiving wage rates
above P100.00 and, therefore, not entitled to the P10.00
increase. Only three (3) of them are receiving wage rates
below P100.00, thus, entitled to such increase. Now, to
direct petitioner to grant an acrossthe-board increase to all
of them, regardless of the amount of wages they are already
receiving, would be harsh and unfair to the former. As we
ruled in Metropolitan Bank 11and Trust Company Employees
Union ALU-TUCP v. NLRC:
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13 Mactan Workers Union v. Aboitiz, G.R. No. L-30241, June 30, 1972,
45 SCRA 577, citing Shell Oil Workers Union v. Shell Company of the
Philippines, 39 SCRA 276 (1971).
14 Werne, Law and Practice of the Labor Contract, Volume 1 Origin
and Operation Disputes, 1957, p. 20.
15 Werne, Law and Practice of the Labor Contract, Volume 1 Origin
and Operation Disputes, 1957, p. 180.
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