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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 […]
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 […]
