ABOUT 1.5 million government employees are assured of continued wage increases in the succeeding three years, even as President Gloria Arroyo ends her term in Malacañang on June 30.
Through the Salary Standardization Law (SSL) III signed last year, all state workers will be receiving salary increases until 2013—to be given in four yearly tranches.
“Because of the Salary Standardization Law that we enacted during my administration, even when I am no longer President, you will continue to receive increases for the next three years,” President Arroyo said in her speech during the 16th anniversary of the Commission on Higher Educations (CHED) on Tuesday.
The basic salary, including step increments, where an employee may progress from Step 1 to Step 8 of the salary grade allocation, will be the primary component of the compensation framework.
The framework seeks to rationalize and standardize the basic salaries, allowances, benefits and incentives for government officials and employees.
Mrs. Arroyo explained in her speech that the value added tax law (E-VAT), which increased the VAT on taxable items to 12 percent, will be the main source of “fresh funds which we reinvested in our people through expanded and improved education, social services, infrastructure and salary increases.”
The President said that the salary increase granted in July last year covered everyone in government service including teachers in state universities and colleges, specialized schools and the staff of the CHED.
She added that the next round of salary increases for government workers is slated to be made this July. –Kristine Bunda and Kevin A. Santos, Manila Times
July 2025
Nutrition Month
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for proper nutrition!”
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against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
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July
3 July – International Day of Cooperatives
3 July – International Plastic Bag Free Day
5 July – World Youth Skills Day
7 July – Global Forgiveness Day
11 July – World Population Day
17 July – World Day for International Justice
28 July – World Nature Conservation Day
30 July – World Day against Trafficking in Persons
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Nutrition Month
National Disaster Consciousness Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 2: Cultural Communities Week
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise
Development Week
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Technology Week
National Disability Prevention and
Rehabilitation Week
July 1-7:
National Culture Consciousness Week
July 13-19:
Philippines Business Week
Week ending last Saturday of July:
Arbor Week
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First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
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