The country’s largest labor federation on Tuesday assailed the Regional Wage and Productive Boards (RWPBs) of the Department of Labor and Employment for “deliberately delaying” approval of its demand for wage increase.

Alan Tanjusay, spokesman for the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), said his group has “received information that all wage boards nationwide are deliberately delaying verdict” about the federation’s wage hike demand because they want the new President of the Philippines to decide on the matter.

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