Former National Police chief and now Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa warned of a attainable mass exodus of navy and uniformed personnel if the proposed reforms of their pension and advantages system would cowl those that are within the energetic service.
“Mayroong nagbabanta na kapag mangyari yan ay magkakaroon ng exodus, maraming mag-eexit from the military and uniformed service kapag mangyari yon,” Dela Rosa said in an interview on ANC.
(Some are threatening to leave the military and the uniformed service if that happens.)
“So, we cannot afford to have a weak defense posture, defense establishment kapag ganong magretire ang ating mga kapulisan dahil nga sa batas na yan.” he added
(We can’t have a weak defensive posture or protection institution if our policemen retire due to that regulation.)
The lawmaker, a retiree himself, stated the federal government should maintain in depth consultations if it’s the solely method to stop a “fiscal collapse.”
Earlier, Dela Rosa stated there can be a “very revolting” response from retired troopers and policemen if the Marcos administration will embrace them within the proposed reforms to the MUP system.
Last week, Department of National Defense (DND) officer-in-charge Carlito Galvez Jr. requested lawmakers to look right into a attainable “middle ground” in reference to the proposed new MUP pension system.
Galvez had disclosed that 70 to 80% of the enlisted personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) need to avail of early retirement to specific “apprehension” to the proposals, which embrace the removing of automated indexation in pension and the imposition of obligatory contributions on navy personnel.
In March, Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno stated that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is “okay” with the proposal to reform the pension system for the MUP as he warned that failure to handle the ballooning price of pensions for retirees may result in a “fiscal collapse.”
But final week, Galvez stated a minimum of President “Bongbong” Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is “very much concerned” in regards to the affect of the proposed new pension system on the morale of troopers and policemen. —VAL, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
