Capiz 1st Engineering District workers may lose jobs

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February 9, 2018
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ROXAS City – Job order workers at the Capiz 1st Engineering District Office may lose their jobs if the zero allocation for opposition lawmakers will push through.

House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez on Dec. 21 last year said allocations for districts of several lawmakers had been slashed from the 2018 budget.

Alvarez said the funds were reallocated for the full tuition subsidy in state universities and colleges and for the salary increases of uniformed personnel who “who are on the frontlines of the government’s war against terrorism and criminality,” media outlet Rappler reported.

There are 129 job order workers at the Capiz 1st Engineering District Office which is under theDepartment of Public Works and Highways.

Out of the total number, 59 of them are project-based job order workers – this means that their wages are sourced from the Engineering Administrative Overhead (EAO).

The EAO is equivalent to five percent of the total allocation for infrastructure projects in the district.

The wages of the other job order workers, on the other hand, are sourced from the district’s regular fund.

According to Engineer Julius Abela, chief of the Construction Section of the Capiz 1st Engineering District Office, infrastructure projects worth some P1.5 billion may not be carried out if there is a zero budget.

The projects include the concretization of various national roads and construction of farm-to-market roads, multi-purpose buildings, and a sea wall, among others.

A contractor told Panay Newson the condition of anonymity that some of the projects were already “published for public bidding last month though short of award.”

Abela said they are still hoping to receive a notice of budget allocation from the Depaertment of Budget and Management.

“Wala anay kami nagrenew ka service contract sang mga job orders nganakacharge sa EAO kay wala pangsweldosa ila,” he added.

Rep. Emmanuel Billones (Capiz, 1st District) earlier said his “constituents will be deprived of services if not given a budget allocation.”

Billones is with the Liberal Party and a member of the “Magnificent 7” – a group of lawmakers critical of the Duterte administration./PN
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