Labor groups protest halt to P85 wage hikeLabor Secretary Francis Tolentino faces members of the Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino, Oriang and Workers’ Federation who staged a protest outside the labor department’s main office in Intramuros on August 3, 2026, over the temporary restraining order on the P85 wage hike. The labor groups stressed that the wage order is the product of a lawful tripartite process where labor, employers and government were heard. Once a duly issued wage order can be frozen with little resistance, every future wage victory becomes vulnerable to the same attack.” “To allow the continued suspension of the wage order is, in effect, to legalize the snatching of the workers’ hard-earned victory on the P85 wage hike. Secretary Francis Tolentino was quick to wrongly portray this measly, two-tranche P85 wage increase as ‘historic.’