Gov’t workers to get pay hike anew
BUDGET Secretary Rolando Andaya has good news for the country’s close to a million national government employees: they can expect more salary increases in the next two years.
“Two more pay hikes for government employees are being planned and these will be implemented in 2009 and 2010,” Andaya told a hearing of the House committee on appropriations yesterday.
National government employees are scheduled to get a 10 percent increase in their basic pay on July 1.
Andaya assured Rep. Edcel Lagman (Lakas, Albay), chairman of the committee, that the funding for another round of salary increases will be included in the 2009 budget.
“The parameters of the 2009 budget are now being prepared at the agency level,” Andaya said.
“Insofar as the last two remaining budget proposals that President Arroyo will submit to Congress, each will contain a provision for a salary compensation increase for state workers,” he said.
The former congressman told the committee that the consecutive increases will be “consolidated in a new salary standardization law that will revamp the pay scale and eventually increase the salary rates for government employees.”
He also explained that the new salary standardization measure is aimed at “synchronizing the request for all workers and not just by profession.”
Andaya said the new measure would not only restructure the old salary standardization law, but it will also give the government a clearer “guideline on how much its employees should receive during pay hikes.”
Meanwhile, Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales said pay hike is necessary for wage earners to cope with increases in prices of commodities such as rice and fuel.
He said the government should make positive steps to follow the demand of the public and implement measures for workers to cope with the spiraling daily cost of living.
Cagayan de Oro Archbishop Antonio Ledesma also called on the government to consider the sad state of the ordinary workers.
Labor groups had called for a wage hike to help wage earners cope with rising cost of living.
Some groups wanted P60 to P80 a day wage hike, while militant workers want P125 across-the-board.
But acting Labor Secretary Marianito Roque on Friday admitted that it is unlikely that the proposed P80 wage hike in the National Capital Region would be granted.
National Wages And Productivity Board Executive Director Ciriaco Lagunzad said that expecting a pay hike to be granted on May 1 may not be realistic, adding that wage boards have to follow several procedures before an increase is effected.
Businessmen also agreed with the assessment of the Department of Labor And Employment that a wage increase cannot be granted at this time. By: Raul S. Beltran with a report from Lee Ann P. Ducusin - Journal online
“Two more pay hikes for government employees are being planned and these will be implemented in 2009 and 2010,” Andaya told a hearing of the House committee on appropriations yesterday.
National government employees are scheduled to get a 10 percent increase in their basic pay on July 1.
Andaya assured Rep. Edcel Lagman (Lakas, Albay), chairman of the committee, that the funding for another round of salary increases will be included in the 2009 budget.
“The parameters of the 2009 budget are now being prepared at the agency level,” Andaya said.
“Insofar as the last two remaining budget proposals that President Arroyo will submit to Congress, each will contain a provision for a salary compensation increase for state workers,” he said.
The former congressman told the committee that the consecutive increases will be “consolidated in a new salary standardization law that will revamp the pay scale and eventually increase the salary rates for government employees.”
He also explained that the new salary standardization measure is aimed at “synchronizing the request for all workers and not just by profession.”
Andaya said the new measure would not only restructure the old salary standardization law, but it will also give the government a clearer “guideline on how much its employees should receive during pay hikes.”
Meanwhile, Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales said pay hike is necessary for wage earners to cope with increases in prices of commodities such as rice and fuel.
He said the government should make positive steps to follow the demand of the public and implement measures for workers to cope with the spiraling daily cost of living.
Cagayan de Oro Archbishop Antonio Ledesma also called on the government to consider the sad state of the ordinary workers.
Labor groups had called for a wage hike to help wage earners cope with rising cost of living.
Some groups wanted P60 to P80 a day wage hike, while militant workers want P125 across-the-board.
But acting Labor Secretary Marianito Roque on Friday admitted that it is unlikely that the proposed P80 wage hike in the National Capital Region would be granted.
National Wages And Productivity Board Executive Director Ciriaco Lagunzad said that expecting a pay hike to be granted on May 1 may not be realistic, adding that wage boards have to follow several procedures before an increase is effected.
Businessmen also agreed with the assessment of the Department of Labor And Employment that a wage increase cannot be granted at this time. By: Raul S. Beltran with a report from Lee Ann P. Ducusin - Journal online
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