DLI is human right; As a human right, it has several characteristic. The international community has agreed several key characteristics of human rights, they are: Universal: human rights belong to everyone in the world Equality: All rights are equally important Inalienability: rights cannot be taken away from people, but can be limited through legally sanctioned processes Indivisibility and interdependence:...

In the Philippine, the labour regulation stipulates that between men and women receive equal pay, but in practice there is little difference. 55% of respondents said men received slightly higher wages than female workers but not so clear why men received slightly higher wages. Between public and private sector workers do not have big differences, they could even be said to have same wage rate. It is perhaps in the Philippine...

In Australia we will not find wage discrimination between men and women, wages in Australia are not based on gender. In fact, grass-roots research we found the data that women receive higher wages than men, due to differences in education levels. Employees who complete UNIVERSITY receive higher wages than those who only graduated from high school or college diploma. Arguably, a large (71.79%) of respondents in Australia were...

A Decent Living Income is an income which is based upon the cost of living in an area, rather than an arbitrary minimum. Under an ideal decent living income, someone who works an ordinary 40 hour per week job would be able to afford shelter, food, health care, and other basic necessities of life. The amount of a decent living income could potentially vary quite a bit, as standards of living are different in different parts of...

Living wage rate estimates in this paper implicitly assume that a poor person’s only source of income is from work. Although obviously an oversimplification, this assumption should not cause major problems for calculating cross-nationally comparable living wage rates. First of all, the poor rarely have substantial income earning assets on which to rely. Indeed, the opposite is often true, as the poor often have debt and must...

The living wage is a term used to define a “fair and decent” level of income that would enable workers to meet their “basic needs.” There is no agreed upon definition of what specifically “basic needs” are nor is there an agreed upon methodology to determine basic needs; however, it is generally agreed that “basic needs” means more than mere physical subsistence and includes social needs that would allow a household a comfortable...

The living wage is a concept central to the Catholic Social Teaching tradition beginning with the foundational document, Rerum Novarum, a papal encyclical by Pope Leo XIII issued in 1891 to combat the excesses of both laissez-faire capitalism on the one hand and communism on the other. In this letter, Pope Leo affirms the right to private property while insisting on the role of the state to require a living wage. The means of...

Income as economic and political control Wages more a tool of political and economic control rather than a means for the welfare of workers. From year to year, although the cost of living is getting high, but wages remained suppressed at the lowest position. By fixing the amount of wages received by workers menaing that ruler and employers also pegged the economic and political people power. This will make easier for the authorities...

Minimum wage in Asia Minimum Wage Minimum wage is the minimum amount that must be paid to the majority of the workers of a country, generally on an hourly, daily or monthly basis and which is ideally fixed in such a way as to cover the minimum needs of the worker and his/her family, in light of the prevailing national economic and social conditions. The facts on minimum wages:There is legislation regarding minimum wage fixing...

In the analysis and action, we are in need of legal reference, in this report, we are also going to present the minimum wage according to the legal rules in some countries in Asia and the Pacific. The minimum wage that we fit here is according the rules that apply perched mid-2010. Comparative Wages in Asia and Pacific (June 2010) Country Monthly Wage In country currency In US$ Cambodia (Cambodian...