DAVAO CITY EMPLOYEES TO GET BONUS

Monday, 08 December 2014 22:34
By ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.

The Davao City Government will release the Christmas bonus for its employees before the last working day before Christmas.

In yesterday’s flag raising ceremony at the City Hall, city administrator J. Meclchor V. Quitain announced that the city has already found the source of funds for the employes’ Productivity Incentive Allowance.

But Quitain said City Hall will formulate a mechanism on how to release the bonus because he is worried about employees who have debts from loan sharks.

“Give us time to think it over because I am concerned with people still have unpaid loans. That money, if I understand that if it will be placed in the ATM, there is somebody who will get it ahead of you,” Quitain told the employees.
“That money is reserved for the family. Sana yung mga nagpapautang, ay may paki-usap din ako sainyo, huwag niyo naman galawin yung bonus ng mga empleyado at least for this Christmas. Hindi naman yan kasama sa usapan. Ibigay niyo na yan sa kanila (To the money lenders, I am asking that you don’t take the bonus of the employees at least for this Christmas. That is not included in your agreement. Just give to them),” he added.
Quitain also told the employees not to borrow money from lenders in anticipation of their bonus.
“Kayo naman, huwag na kayong umutang. Hindi pa nga narelease, inutang na niyo,” Quitain said.
In an interview with Edge Davao, City Human Resource Management Office (HRMO) head Erwin Alaparaque said the local finance committee (LFC) of the executive department will hasten the proceedings so that it will be endorsed to the City Council. 

Alparaque said the LFC already endorsed its resolution to Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte and it is now waiting for his signature.
“Then the request from the city mayor to appropriate funds for the grant and payment of Productivity Incentive Allowancewould be endorsed to the City Council,” he said.
 
Alparaque said the bonus for employees will be included for the Supplemental Budget No. 2 this year.

He said as soon as the City Council approves within next week, the bonus will immediately be released to the employees.
 
Alparaque said the LFC recommended to draw the fund from the savings on Personal Services (PS) and Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses (MOOE).
 
He said all regular, contract of service, and job order government workers will get their bonus as soon as the City Council approves it.
 
He said he did not know if there would be an increase from last year’s P72 million allocation for the bonus, but regular employees will get P10,000 bonus each while the job order and contract of service will get P5,000 each.

Alparaque said the city government has a total 12, 827 employees: 2,827 are plantilla or regular employees, 4,242 are job order employees, and 5,365 contract of service employees.

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