MANILA - A labor partylist on Wednesday urged President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos to raise the minimum wage to just above the poverty threshold of P16,000.

The TUCP Partylist has filed for a P37 minimum wage increase to P570, according to its Rep. Raymond Mendoza.

He added that he would like to meet with Marcos and other stakeholders to raise the issue.

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"Kailangan talaga yung (the) minimum wage should be on top of that for a family of 5 to survive. As a national policy, are we doing this, giving out below poverty wages that minimum wage earners, 3 million of them, can’t even survive? Let’s do something about it," he told ANC's Headstart.

"Let’s sit down and talk, let’s have a roadmap, how are we going to bring it at least nakapatong naman sa poverty threshold level... Let’s have a roadmap and it should be timebound and when are we going to make it happen."

(Let’s sit down and talk, let’s have a roadmap, how are we going to bring it at least above the poverty threshold level.)

Mendoza, meantime, said he was "happy" with Marcos' first State of the Nation Address.

"How I wish he mentioned the endo bill, how I wish he mentioned about wages. Overall in terms of SONA message we’re happy. We’re also giving him a chance for delivery," he said.