Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero is now pushing for a bill providing for an automatic promotion of government employees upon retirement. In filing Senate Bill No. 297, Escudero proposes to grant a promotion of one salary grade level higher than the employee’s position at the time of...
State-run Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) released a memorandum circular concerning revised check replacement policies. According to GSIS' memorandum circular -49-2023, the Policy and Procedural Guidelines (PPG) would cover all claims or refunds as well as miscellaneous checks. This also...
CAMP RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – Vice President Sara Z. Duterte awarded top personnel and units of the Police Regional Office-13 during the 122nd Police Service Anniversary celebration here on Wednesday afternoon, October 4. VICE President Sara Z. Duterte delivers a message during the...
Employees in the accommodation and food service sector received higher wages as the economy bounced back from the Covid-19 pandemic, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported. In the 2021 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI), data showed that an average annual...
Land titles from the state-run Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) were given to at least 70 beneficiaries under the Pabahay sa Bagong Bayaning Manggagawa (PBBM) initiative. The PBBM initiative is a GSIS housing program that was introduced last May. It is a three-tiered strategy to support...
(Civil Service Commission / Facebook) The Civil Service Commission’s (CSC) “Contact Center ng Bayan” has honored the top 10 government agencies for achieving the highest resolution rates for Fiscal Year 2022. The resolution rate measures the number of complaints an agency resolves compared to...
Victoria International Container Terminal (VICT), a subsidiary of billionaire Enrique K. Razon Jr.'s International Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) in Australia, will soon be handling the largest boxships to arrive in Australia after the recent delivery of two new ship-to-shore (STS)...
Government officials and employees from various regions came together on Thursday, Sept. 28 to commemorate the 123rd Philippine Civil Service Anniversary (PCSA) with the nationwide “Medical Mission of Government Workers.” The medical mission aimed to provide essential medical and dental...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has denied the P9.1 million in backwages and benefits claimed by a former National Library of the Philippines (NLP) official who was dismissed from the government service when found guilty in an administrative charge in 1996 but was granted executive clemency in 2012....
International Container Terminal Services Inc.’s (ICTSI) Ecuadorian business unit Contecon Guayaquil S.A. (CGSA) has handled 135 million tons of cargo since starting operations at the Port of Guayaquil 16 years ago. The milestone was recently marked by CGSA which operates the Libertador Simon...
State-owned Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) has introduced a loan program for teachers with longer payment terms and lower interest rates. In a statement on Tuesday, Sept. 26, GSIS President and General Manager Wick Veloso said that this initiative aligns with the Department of...
(Unsplash) A measure seeking to institutionalize a mechanism that would refund customers in case of outages and disruptions with their Internet or telecommunications services has gained final approval in the House of Representatives. Gaining 278 affirmative...
