Senate Minority Leader Vicente "Tito" Sotto III has renewed his push for the bill mandating private sector employers to grant workers their 14th month pay to help them cope with the rising costs of goods and services and help Filipino families with educational expenses. The 14th month pay will be...
(MANILA BULLETIN) If he would have his way, Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas senatorial slate member Benhur Abalos said he would ensure that the 832,000 contract-of-service (COS) and job order (JO) workers in government would get regular...
The Antipolo City government announced on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, the grant of a ₱20,000 Service Recognition Incentive (SRI) to its employees. City Mayor Casimiro "Junjun" Ynares announced that the ₱20,000 SRI has been released to the regular, casual, and contractual employees of the city...
Government employees are set to receive their year-end bonuses and cash gifts earlier than usual, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) said. In a statement, Budget Secretary Amenah F. Pangandaman said she signed DBM Budget Circular No. 2024-3 on Oct. 22, outlining the new guidelines for...
Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan (Rep. Yamsuan’s Facebook) Barangay watchmen or "tanods" deserve a Christmas bonus too, according to Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan. That's why Yamsuan penned and filed...
Quezon City 5th district Rep. PM Vargas has filed a measure that would grant a "Christmas bonus" worth P1,000 to indigent senior citizens. (Thomas Kelley/ Unsplash) Vargas has dubbed the measure, embodied in House Bill (HB) No.6693, as the “Paskong Maligaya para kay Lolo’t Lola Bill”, which...
Parañaque City Mayor Eric Olivarez announced on Monday, Nov. 21, that the 1,400 job order (JO) employees of the city government will receive an increase in their salaries from P3,500 to P5,000 this year. Olivarez made the announcement during the regular Monday flag-raising ceremony held at the...
Government workers will receive their year-end and cash gift bonus beginning Tuesday, Nov. 15. In a statement, Budget Secretary Amenah F. Pangandaman said the national government earmarked P65.35 billion to cover the year-end and cash gift bonus of state personnel. Of that amount, P56.73 billion is...
Aegis With Christmas just around the corner, everyone’s in the mood for gift-hunting and merry-making as people anticipate what should be the best news yet of the season, the annual Christmas bonus! This type of bonus is granted to employees as a form of appreciation and gratitude for services...
BACOOR, Cavite – Netizens admired the honesty of a 22-year-old working student who returned the cash she found at an automated teller machine (ATM) just as she was about to use it on Nov. 22. Straight from her graveyard shift at a call center, Jeanette Cortez Real went to an ATM station at a...
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque finds nothing wrong with requiring employees to get vaccinated from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) before they could be given their Christmas bonus. (Photos from Mark Balmores/ Unsplash) "Wala po akong nakikitang pagkakamali dyan kasi Christmas bonus po ang...
A labor-employer-government meeting agreed in principle to ask government to extend a loan facility to micro enterprises to pay for the mandatory 13th month pay of their employees which is estimated between P500 million to P1 billion. Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) President...
