City employees to receive P1,000 Adcom
Iloilo City -- Regular employees of the city government will receive additional compensation of P1,000 each after the Sangguniang Panlungsod approved a resolution allocating P10 million from its annual budget.
Mayor Jerry Treñas said he has already tasked the City Council to source out the P10 million from the city's annual development fund. The endorsement is now at the office of Councilor Jose Espinosa III, chair of the committee on appropriations of the Sangguniang Panlungsod.
Treñas said the employees will receive their P1,000 additional compensation as soon as the council okays the release of such fund. The P10 million fund is only good for five months.
The city government has some 1,600 regular employees. The city needs some P22 million for the additional compensation of employees.
The release of P1,000 additional compensation which is retroactive from January to March is based on Budget Circular No.2006-2 of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM). The budget circular is an off shoot of Administrative Order (AO) 144 signed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo last February 28,2006.
The AO was issued to make sure government employees get the benefit starting this month and retroactive to January.
The additional compensation will only be received by all civilian appointive personnel under permanent, temporary, contractual, casual or substitute status, on full-time or part-time basis in departments, bureaus, offices and agencies of the national government, state universities and colleges (SUCs), government owned and controlled corporations (GOCC) and government funded institutions (GFI) created by law which are covered by or following Republic Act 6758 or the Compensation and Position and Classification Act of 1989 popularly known as the Salary Standardization Law.
The additional compensation will also be received by all officials and employees of local government units, military personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, uniformed personnel under the Philippine National Police, Bureau of Fire and Protection
(BFP), Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, Philippine Coast Guard and National Mapping and Resource Information Authority.