More than 40 million Filipino workers were not happy in celebrating Christmas since the salary they had received from their employers was not enough to buy their daily needs, according to the Partido Manggagawa (PM) party-list.

Wilson Fortaleza, PM spokesman, on Friday said the minimum wage of more than P12,000 in Metro Manila and less than this amount for the rest of the country are not enough because of the high cost of living in the Philippines.

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