Under Article 80 of the Labor Code, handicapped workers, now to be properly called as “Persons With Disability” or “PWD,” are entitled to not less than seventy-five percent (75%) of the applicable adjusted minimum wage.52 In view, however, of R.A. No. 7277, the wage rate of PWDs had been increased to and fixed at 100% of the applicable minimum wage.
Wage Orders issued by the Regional Boards normally reflect this principle. For instance, as shown in Section 7 of Wage Order No. NCR-18 quoted above, the full amount of the minimum wage rate prescribed thereunder is granted to a PWD.
Moreover, the employment agreements with persons with disability are deemed automatically modified insofar as their wage clauses are concerned to reflect the said legally mandated increases.