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John Unson - Philstar.com
December 17, 2025 | 6:24pm
Members of the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao display the new wage order, which raises the monthly pay of domestic workers in BARMM by P500 to a total of P5,000. The order was approved on Dec. 17, 2025.
Photo courtesy of Philstar.com / John Unson
COTABATO CITY— The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region has approved a P500 increase in the monthly salary of domestic workers across all five provinces and three cities under its jurisdiction.
Regional Labor and Employment Minister Muslimin Sema, chairperson of the RTWPB-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, and other board members signed the wage order on Wednesday, December 17, directing employers to add P500 to the monthly pay of domestic workers, or "kasambahay" in local vernaculars, during a symbolic ceremony at one of the function halls in the BARMM capitol in Cotabato City.
The RTWPB-BARMM had raised the minimum monthly pay of domestic workers in the autonomous region to P5,000 through a wage order issued just a year ago.
Sema and businessman Datu Haron Bandila, the management sector representative to the RTWPB-BARMM, told reporters that board members and officials from the Bangsamoro government’s Ministry of Labor and Employment will work together to monitor employers’ compliance with the wage order signed on Wednesday, recorded as Wage Order-BARMM-DW02.
“There were extensive consultations with domestic workers, employers and representatives of the labor and management sectors in the autonomous region before this latest increase in monthly pay of domestic workers was set,” Sema said after he and members of the RTWPB-BARMM signed the Wage Order-BARMM-DW02, in the presence of reporters.
Jonathan Acosta, Norlyn Odin, both representing the workers’ sector, Akmad Guinta and Shamera Abobakar from the Bangsamoro Planning and Development Authority and the region's Ministry of Trade, Investments and Tourism, respectively, and board secretary Bailyn Nanding, also affixed their signatures to the three-page Wage Order-BARMM-DW02.
Sema said Wage Order-BARMM-DW02 will take effect 15 days after its publication as a notice in a newspaper of regional circulation.
Radio reporters who witnessed the signing of Wage Order-BARMM-DW02 by RTWPB-BARMM members have committed to help broadcast its content, details and implications through the media outlets they work for.
The Bangsamoro region covers the provinces of Maguindanao del Norte, Maguindanao del Sur, Lanao del Sur, Basilan and Tawi-Tawi and the cities of Lamitan, Marawi and Cotabato.
