What is the essence of “minimum wage”?
“Minimum wages” underlies the effort of the State, as Republic Act No. 6727 expresses it, “to promote productivity-improvement and gain-sharing measures to ensure a decent standard of living for the workers and their families; to guarantee the rights of labor to its just share in the fruits of production; to enhance employment generation in the countryside through industry dispersal; and to allow business and industry reasonable returns on investment, expansion and growth,” and as the Constitution expresses it, to affirm “labor as a primary social economic force.
