Gov't workers to get pay hike next year
A HOUSE leader said the Salarv Standardization
Law 5 will raise the salaries of lhe state workers,
including the teachers and nurses, by 15 percent in
the next three yeals,
Ho u se Committee on Ways an d Mears Albay Rep-
resenlative Joey Salceda asiLred govemmenl wori<-
er<under Sa lary Crade I to I7 w iI git higher inoeases
while those under SC l8-33 -- induding the president
and congressmen - will receive lowerincreases.
The Depa rtm ent of Bud ge t and Management(DBM)
is set to submit to Con gress the P32billionbudget for SSL
5.
According to_Sdlceda, based on a shidy commis-
. The latest four-yedr compensdtion adjustment pro-
sioned by DBM, the ddminis tration is se t to ipend pl 10
billion over three years for its civil servantr'inauaing
nurses and teacheis.
. "The 2020 budget provides for P32 billion in wage
increase and P4 billion for miscellaneous benefits],,
Salceda said-
Salceda added that these has been programmed
within theorganiccapacity of tle governmeniand need
no new taxes to underwrite it.
"The adjusbnents will preserve and somewhat im-
prove the purchasing po+wer ofcivil servants consider-
ing the consumer price jnflatjon oF 3.4 percen I over the
past tfuee years (2016 - 1.8 percent, J2 percent - 2017
and 2018 - 5.2 percent) and'forward esiimates 3-year
inflation of 2-4 Dercent Det vear.
approied, mor! thln one miltion govemment
__Once
officials and employees will get a new rouid of salary
mcrease starting ne^t year.
gram-gave a substantial increase to officials, sta*ing
from lower and mid-level buJeducrats up to t-tre presi
dent.
Davao City Rep. lsidro Ungab, chalman of the
House of _Represen tatives Comiri ttee on Appropria-
tions, confirmed tha t theproposed t4.l-trillioir iraribnal
buqget ter .ne\t year includes P32 billion for salary
adjustments.
It can be recalled that the President has repeatedly
promised to incredse the salary of teachers and nr.use!
afterhe doubled themonthly p!y of soJd iers and poLJce-
men. FCac ? Jester tanalastas