Manila, Feb. 1 -- Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) should be taken into consideration before making a decision on the proposed PHP200 daily wage increase, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said on Saturday.

"Whether it's doable or not doable, siguro (perhaps), to put it in its proper context, out of the more than one million enterprises sa Pilipinas (in the Philippines), more than 95 percent ay nasa (are) micro, small enterprises and probably you can make your answer out of that. Tignan natin (Let's see)," DOLE Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma said during the Saturday News Forum in Quezon City.

Laguesma clarified that DOLE is not opposing the proposed measure.

Instead, it is providing technical inputs to give an id...