MANILA, Jan. 31 -- The proposed PHP200 daily pay hike needs to be further studied, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. said Friday, following some lawmakers' call for him to certify the legislated wage increase bill as urgent to uplift the Filipino workers' standard of living.

"The thing is we have a tripartite board that actually determines the increase in the wage. So, we still have to study it further to see how that will work together," Marcos said in a chance interview in Pasay City.

"So, now with this, I don't know how that's going to work together. But we will see. We will try to resolve that because as you know it's very clear that tumataas ang bilihin, nandiyan pa rin ang inflation. Hindi pa natin nasusugpo nang mabuti, nang kump...