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CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu Metropolis Corridor staff must wait a bit longer for the discharge of the P35, 000 Constitution Day bonus that was promised to them.
In a press convention on Monday, Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia stated that the bonus will likely be launched after Supplemental Funds (SB) 1 is permitted by the Metropolis Council because the incentive will likely be funded from the price range request.
SB1 value P635 million consists of the P180 million allocation for the bonus and one other P14.6 million to fund actions regarding the town’s Constitution Day celebration on February 24.
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“We’ll want a Cebu Metropolis Council decision [which] will likely be used as a foundation for our payroll. So, if dili na nila mahatag og sayo-sayo, madugay unhappy ang amoang pag-release sa maong bonus (if that isn’t handed instantly, there will even be delays within the launch of the bonus),” Garcia stated.
Garcia earlier introduced the discharge of P25, 000 as this 12 months’s Constitution Day bonus to the town’s 1,300 common and a couple of,900 informal staff. In the meantime, the three,000 job orders employees will obtain P5,000 every. The motivation was a repeat of the quantity that was launched final 12 months.
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However Council Members in a while determined to extend the motivation for normal and informal staff to P35, 000.
“I’m very completely happy and grateful for the rise from the Metropolis Council and we simply need to hurdle the procedures [so] that mahatag na nato ang bonus sa atong mga empleyado as much as P35,000 (we’ll already have the ability to launch the bonus of the as much as P35, 000 to our staff),” Garcia stated.
Constitution Day bonus
Through the Metropolis Council’s session final February 12, Councilor Noel Wenceslao inquired about the opportunity of granting greater than P25, 000 as Constitution Day bonus.
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Councilor Jocelyn Pesquera referred to a decision from April Jane Orquiza, the chairperson of the Metropolis’s Program on Awards and Incentives for Service Excellence, which advisable the discharge of “not less than P25,000” for this 12 months’s Constitution Day bonus.
“So it means [that they are] requesting the Metropolis Council that if ever we grant this explicit money incentive, it shouldn’t be lower than P25,000,” she stated.
Pesquera then urged for the legislative physique to think about rising the quantity to P35, 000; P40, 000 and even P50, 000 as a way of exhibiting the town’s generosity to its staff.
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On the movement of Councilor Philip Zafra, Council members unanimously agreed to extend the motivation to P35, 000.
Supplemental Funds 1
Nevertheless, Garcia defined that whereas the quantity was already agreed upon, the discharge of the Constitution Day bonus shouldn’t be outright.
The manager division must look forward to the approval of SB 1, which they may use because the supply for the motivation.
Requested if the approaching elections was a think about rising the quantity to be launched, Garcia admitted that it was.
“We thank the elections, that’s one [reason]. However critically, in issues the place we share the identical opinion, for instance, giving what’s greatest for the workers, I’m very completely happy nga on the identical web page mi anang dapita. On the identical wavelength mi dinhang dapita.”
“Hinaot pa unta nga dili election 12 months, ingon ana lang gihapon atong pag deal with sa atong staff,” he added.
(I simply hope that we are going to proceed to deal with our staff the identical approach even whether it is not an election 12 months.)
Election 12 months
Garcia additionally talked about of the town’s generosity throughout a message that he delivered after the flag-raising ceremony at Plaza Sugbo on Monday morning.
“Kamong mga empleyado, magpasalamat gyud mo, kay karong panahona, ting election. Ambot ngano nga maayo nalang ni nga balita. Og di pa election, ambot ba kaha’g mahitabo ba ni,” Garcia stated.
(Metropolis Corridor staff ought to be pleased about the approaching election. This [the increase in Charter Day bonus] is an excellent information. If it weren’t for the election season, I can’t make certain if this can even occur.)
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