THE payroll system and requirements for employment of job order, casuals and those under contract of services are being reviewed, lawyer Rayfrando Diaz, provincial administrator, said Tuesday, March 9, 2021.
This came after the complaints of some employees at the Capitol that their salaries were delayed.
Diaz said he has discussed with Felomina Guzon, PHRMO officer-in-charge, regarding the matter.
"I have ordered for the salaries of the JO, casuals and CoS employees be released on schedule starting March," he said.
Diaz said the employees should already be paid off their salaries via payroll and not the current voucher system, which is a tedious process, with many signatories and salaries are delayed by as much as three months.
"We are now processing their enrollment to the payroll which was my order to the HR since December last year. However, it was not implemented," he said in dismay.
Diaz said he has asked the information technology division of the Capitol to look into the payroll system to ensure that the employees are already registered.
He also said that they are targeting that by April, all the JOs, CoS and casual employees will now be paid through the ATM payroll system.
"We will not wait for somebody from the Provincial Treasurer's Office to make a cash advance so they can release salaries," Diaz said.
"We are also slowly addressing the complaints of some employees especially those quarantined after being tested positive for coronavirus whose leave credits were deducted and those retiring employees who were required to submit clearances before it is forwarded to the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS)," he said.
"We want them to receive the benefits due them at the soonest possible time," he added.
He also said that he wants a uniform set of requirements like new clearances from the police and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) every time their contracts are renewed.
"The HR should act as a mother of all our employees and they should always help them instead of burdening them," he said.
The minimum requirements should only be required of them, Diaz said.
Meanwhile, lawyer Anabelle Palic, the recently relieved provincial human resource officer, has already reported to Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson and was given the task to facilitate the transition of the management of the CyberCentre to the Provincial Government.
"As far as we are concerned, the issue has been resolved with the governor acting swiftly to the complaint of the union. We believe that this is for the good of the majority of the employees of the Capitol. We do not want to burden our employees nor do we discriminate and accuse someone of falsehoods," said Diaz.
"We are here to listen to the sentiments of our current and retired employees, he said, hoping that Palic "listened to the sentiments of the employees."