UP Workers and Employees Program’s statement titled “On Wages, Rule of Law, and Social Justice“

The Workers and Employees Program (WEP) of the University of the Philippines Law Center has issued a statement on the Pasig City Regional Trial Court’s Temporary Restraining Order against the implementation of Wage Order No. NCR-27.

Signed by individual faculty members and lawyers affiliated with WEP, the Statement presents the view that the issuance of the status quo ante order and the temporary restraining order is contrary to law, jurisprudence, and the Constitution.

“The courts cannot say that they recognize social justice for Filipino workers and yet neglect the institutions and remedies that enable progressive minimum wage. When we allow courts to overlook or undermine these, we let social justice for vulnerable sectors protected by the Constitution drift further away from realization.”

Read the full statement here.