ABOUT 1,316 employees in Angeles City have received an additional P10,000 cash incentives on Tuesday, December 22.
Mayor Carmelo “Pogi” Lazatin, Jr. said the P10,000 cash gift is composed of P5,000 Collective Negotiation Agreement (CNA); and P5,000 Productivity Enhancement Incentive.
Another P5,000 Service Recognition Incentive (SRI) will be released to the said employees next week.
Of the total recipients, 980 are permanent; 321 are casual; and 15 are contractual employees.
“Binabalik lang po natin sa ating mga kawani ang nararapat dahil sa kanilang walang kapagurang serbisyo, lalo na po ngayong may kinakaharap tayong pandemya,” Lazatin said.
The incentive release is in accordance with Mayor Lazatin’s Memorandum No. 1198, Series of 2020, dated last October 15, where he announced the P15,000 cash gift, apart from the one-month equivalent salary of year-end bonus distributed on November 16. He then ordered the Local Finance Committee — City Treasurer’s Office, City Budget Office, and City Accounting Office — to prepare immediately the computation for the said bonuses.
In addition, 2,805 Contract of Service employees have also received their P3,000 cash incentive on December 10, amounting to P8,415,000.
Flordeliza Santos, Association of Government Employees for a New Dynamic Angeles City (Agenda) president, cited the efforts of the Lazatin administration in pushing to release the said cash incentives.
“Despite the pandemic, hindi po kinakalimutan ni Mayor Lazatin ang kapakanan ng mga empleyado. Hindi niya po pinapabayaan ang mga kawani ng Angeles City,” Santos said.
“Malaking tulong po ito sa mga kawani lalo na ngayong darating na Pasko. Maraming salamat po,” she added.
Santos also vowed that the Agenda will support the programs of Lazatin in uplifting the welfare of all employees and Angelenos.
“Makakaasa po si [Mayor Lazatin] na kaantabay niya ang Agenda sa anumang usaping maka-empleyado at sa pagpapabuti ng government service sa ating siyudad,” Santos said.
It can be recalled that in 2019, Lazatin also ordered the release of P7,000 SRI and P3,000 CNA bonus to 1,316 employees.