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Philippines Public service unions
Public service unions in the Philippines have initiated a number of campaigns and actions to achieve pay equity and are seriously tackling issues concerning gender inequalities and the gender pay gap. They have been involved in a number of capacity-building workshops on gender pay equity, including job evaluation free from gender bias. Actions have included participation in a tri-partite consultation with employers and the government as an outcome of the pay equity campaign, raised awareness of gender pay equity issues in the health service and particularly unpaid health care volunteers who provide routine health care on a 24-hour basis in local communities (Barangays). A key achievement has been the beginning of dialogue between unions and the government regarding the equitable payment for these volunteers providing front line health care services. A recent development has been the lobbying of the government to introduce a job evaluation system free from gender bias in the civil service and a Memorandum of Understanding on Quality Public Services and Performance covering 1.5 million government employees. This contains a number of pay equity provisions concerning the development of a job evaluation process free from gender bias, a programme to address the needs of women government employees; and plans for a programme to upgrade nurses’ salaries.
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