Gov’t workers get pay hike

Published by rudy Date posted on January 10, 2017

By: Ben O. de Vera – @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer, January 10, 2017

Government personnel will get the second tranche of their salary increase this year as the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) continues the implementation of the executive order signed by then President Benigno Aquino III last year.

On Jan. 5, the DBM issued National Budget Circular No. 568 and Local Budget Circular No. 113 signed by Budget Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno allowing government agencies to adjust compensation retroactively, effective Jan. 1, under Executive Order (EO) No. 201 issued in 2016.

EO 201 raised the salaries of civilian personnel as well as granted new and higher allowance for military and uniformed personnel.

The EO mandated compensation adjustments in four annual tranches starting last year until 2019.

This increase in salaries and allowance, however, is yet to be passed as law by Congress.

During the 16th Congress, then budget chief Florencio B. Abad blamed the non-passage of the proposed Salary Standardization Law of 2015 to the congressional deadlock on the issue of the indexation of pension of military and uniformed personnel.

This year, the DBM said the government would grant the second tranche of provisional allowance for military and uniformed personnel, an interim measure pending the modification and rationalization of their base pay.

“The provisional allowance shall not form part of the base pay. Accordingly, the grant of provisional allowance shall not increase the longevity pay, pension and other collateral allowances which are indexed to the base pay,” the DBM said.

Certain ranks will also get the second tranche of their so-called “officers’ allowance,” which likewise will not be part of their base pay.

Military and uniformed personnel will nonetheless enjoy an increase in hazard pay this year from the previous P390 to P540 per month.

The government had been looking at tempering pension increases—seen as a fiscal risk—once the base pay of active military and uniformed personnel were jacked up.

Based on documents on the 2017 national budget, the government will spend a total of P996.9 billion on personnel expenses this year, up from P817.5 billion last year.

The initial tranche of compensation adjustments under EO 201 in 2016 required P57 billion.

EO 201 also mandated the grant of a midyear bonus—the “14th-month pay” equivalent to one-month basic salary, not earlier than May 15 of every year.

Previously, the yearend bonus or “13th-month pay” was given in two tranches—the first in May ahead of the opening of classes, and the second in November before the Christmas holiday season.

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