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(Eagle News)-President Rodrigo Duterte has signed a law that will increase the salary of government workers, including nurses and teachers. According to a photo release from Malacañang, the President signed the Salary Standardization Law of 2019 on Wednesday in the Palace. Under the new law, the salary adjustment would be given in four tranches starting January 2020. This would end in 2023. Under the law, employees under Salary Grades 10 to 15 will get the […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Francis Pangilinan on Wednesday, July 24, said the pay of entry-level nurses in government should be raised to P30,000. In pushing for the entry-level salary of not lower than Salary Grade 15 (SG-15) or equivalent to P30,531, Pangilinan, in Senate Bill 260, noted the low salaries Filipino nurses get despite the long working hours, a high nurse-patient ratio, and physical and mental burnout. He said based on Department of Labor and Employment’s Bureau […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, July 22, urged Congress to pass the Trabaho Bill into law. The Tax Reform for Attracting Better and Higher-quality Opportunities (Trabaho) bill aims to gradually reduce the income tax rate on firms to 20 percent from 30 percent. In his State of the Nation Address, the President also urged the legislature to pass a new version of the Salary Standardization Law. “To the teachers who toil, kasali na po […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, May 4, vowed to increase the salaries of public school teachers next. The President, however, admitted that it wouldn’t be “as doubled,” noting what he said were the government’s lack of resources for this. The President earlier doubled the salaries of uniformed personnel. Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno has warned against raising the salaries abruptly of public school teachers at this time, but added that they were still […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Tiniyak ng Malacañang na gagawa ng paraan kung papaano maitataas ang sahod ng mga guro at iba pang empleyado ng gobyerno. Sinabi ni Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque, kabilang sa agenda ng pinakahuling Cabinet meeting ang ukol sa salary increase ng mga kawani ng pamahalaan. Ayon kay Roque, tatapusin muna ang huling tranche ng Salary Standardization sa mga manggagawa sa gobyerno. Inihayag ni Roque na matatapos ang huling tranche ng […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Ikinasa na ni Outgoing House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte ang bagong Salary Standardization Law o SSL para itaas ang sahod ng mga government employee. Ang naturang panukala ay magtataas sa average na 45% sa kumpensasyon ng lahat ng salary grade at magtataas sa kumpensasyon ng government personnel hanggang 70 porsyento ng rate ng nasa private sector. Sa SSL version ni Belmonte, ang panukala ay ipatutupad sa pamamagitan ng pagsasama-sama ng salary […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – According to House Speaker Sonny Belmonte, President Benigno Aquino can use his presidential prerogative to implement a salary increase for more than one million government employees this year, with the failure of the Congress to pass the Salary Standardization Law, (SSL-4). Belmonte added that the House of Representatives was able to pass its own version of the law but the Senate failed to do the same with its own version. (Eagle […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Congress will do its best to pass the Salary Standardization Law (SSL-4) in the resumption of its session in May. The Congress wants to pass said law before the end of the 16th Congress. SSL-4 is one of the laws pending due to the lack of quorum before the Congress’ recess. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
Despite the failure of the Congress to pass the Salary Standardization Law (SSL) before the close of its session, Presidential Communications Secretary Sonny Coloma assured government employees that they may still have a salary adjustment as the Department of Budget Management (DBM) is already finalizing its recommendation to President Benigno Aquino regarding the first tranche of the salary adjustment. Coloma added that Php 58 billion was set aside for said salary adjustment in the 2016 […]
MANILA, Feb. 5 — The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) is preparing its recommendations to President Benigno S. Aquino III on the possible implementation of the first tranche of salary adjustments for government workers, as provided for in the proposed Salary Standardization Law 4 bill, Communications Secretary Sonny Coloma Jr. said Thursday. “A total of P57.9 billion appropriation is included in the General Appropriations Act of 2016 and this will fully cover the first […]
The Palace will await Congress’ final decision on the proposed Salary Standardization Law (SSL) 4. “We await the final decision of Congress on the proposed SSL 4 that is still pending with the bicameral conference committee,” Communication Secretary Herminio Coloma, Jr. said in a statement issued on Wednesday. The bicameral conference committee on the proposed SSL 4 remained deadlocked as lawmakers adjourn for the election campaign. Lawmakers will go on recess this weekend. The House […]
The two houses of the Congress set the bicameral meeting regarding the Salary Standardization Law on January 27. Said meeting aims to smooth the passage of the said bill. House Speaker Sonny Belmonte said that the lawmakers are aware of the need of government employees. The Senate passed its own version of the law wherein retired police and military personnel were included but House Appropriations Committee Chairman Isidro Ungab said that they will study said […]
