Section 1
SECTION 1. Determination of now appropriate minimum wages. The President/Prime Minister may, at his own initiative and on the basis of urgent economic necessity or upon recommendation of the National Wages Council, make a determination of appropriate new minimum wage rates, allowances or other wage-related benefits whether on a national, regional or industry basis, and issue the corresponding wage orders. It shall be the duty of the National Wages Council to recommend such determination whenever it finds in the course of its continuing study of the wage rates that the prevailing minimum wages are no longer adequate to maintain We minimum standard of living necessary for the health, efficiency, and general well-being of the workers within the framework of the national development program.