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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Gov’t workers to get more pay adjustments (7:35 p.m.)
MANILA -- Budget Secretary Rolando Andaya said state workers can expect more pay increases in the next two years until the end of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s term in 2010.
“Two more pay hikes for government employees are being planned and will be implemented in 2009 and 2010,” Andaya told the hearing of the House committee on appropriations on House Bill (HB) 41 which upgrades the compensation of members of the judiciary.
The President has already ordered a 10-percent increase in the salary of less than a million state employees starting July 1 as part of efforts to cushion the impact of the rising prices of rice and other basic commodities.
Congress has already agreed to pass the bills on cheaper medicines and tax exemption for minimum wage earners before May 1 as a Labor Day gift to workers.
“Insofar as the last two remaining budget proposals that President Arroyo will submit to Congress, each will contain a provision for a salary compensation increase for state workers,” Andaya said. (WV/Sunnex) |
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