Government staff might anticipate to obtain increased salaries because the final tranche of the mandated wage will increase for state employees took impact on January 1, 2023, the Department of Budget and Management has mentioned.
In a press release, the DBM mentioned the fourth tranche of wage improve was the final part of the pay hike mandated by the Republic Act (RA) 11466 or the Salary Standardization Law of 2019 (SSL V).
The first tranche of SSL V took impact on January 1, 2020.
The RA 11466 covers all positions for civilian personnel, whether or not common, informal, or contractual, appointive or elective, full-time or part-time, now present or thereafter created within the government, legislative, and judicial branches; constitutional commissions and different constitutional places of work; state universities and schools (SUCs); as nicely government-owned or managed firms (GOCCs) not lined by RA 10149 or the GOCC Governance Act of 2011.
The SSL V applies to all positions for salaried LGU personnel, whether or not common, contractual, informal, elective, or appointive; on a full-time or part-time foundation, now present or thereafter created in LGUs, and all positions for barangay personnel which are paid month-to-month honoraria.
Those engaged with out an employer-employee relationship and funded from non-Personnel Services (PS) appropriations/budgets shall be excluded.
Also excluded are the navy and uniformed personnel, GOCCs beneath RA 10149, and people whose companies are engaged by job orders, contracts of service, consultancy, or service contracts with no employer-employee relationship, in keeping with the DBM.
“The government recognizes the indispensable role of its dedicated personnel in serving our beloved country. We are firmly committed to help them amidst rising prices of goods and services. We hope this latest salary increase will cushion the impact of inflation,” Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman mentioned.
The DBM mentioned Pangandaman signed two price range circulars for the implementation of the SSL V, which cowl civilian personnel and native authorities unit (LGU) employees.
The Budget division mentioned that beneath the 2023 General Appropriations Act (GAA), round P48 million has been allotted beneath the Governance Commission for GOCCs’ (GCG) price range to assist the conduct of a examine on the federal government compensation construction of the completely different nationwide authorities businesses and GOCCs.
“President Bongbong Marcos directed us to conduct a study to ensure that the compensation of all civilian personnel will be generally competitive with those in the private sector doing comparable work to attract, retain, and motivate corps of competent and dedicated civil servants,” mentioned Pangandaman.
“Apart from the conduct of the study, the DBM is also undertaking a review of the rates of the existing benefits being provided to qualified government employees to assess if these may need adjustment in the future,” she added. —NB, GMA Integrated News
