GUIMARAS – Regular employees of the Guimaras provincial government will each receive P15,000 service recognition incentive (SRI).
Also receiving incentives are the regular personnel of the Dr. Catalino Gallego Nava Provincial Hospital (DCGNPH) in Barangay San Miguel, Jordan town.
The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) on Dec. 27 approved two appropriation ordinances, Supplemental Budget No. 07 and Supplemental Budget No. 05, for the funding of the incentives.
Vice Gov. John Edward Gando said P12,077,000 was allotted for the SRI of 466 regular capitol employees while P1,567,500 was set aside for 108 regular DCGNPH personnel.
Also included in the P12,077,000 is the gratuity pay for 1,000 contract of service and job orders, which will each receive P5,000.
On Dec. 23, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed Administrative Order No. 3, granting a one-time gratuity pay for COS and job order (JO) government workers.
Qualified for the gratuity pay are those who have rendered at least four months of “actual satisfactory performance,” as stipulated in their respective contracts, as of Dec. 15, 2022, and whose contracts are still effective as of the same date.
“Granting a year-end gratuity pay to COS and JO workers is a well-deserved recognition of their hard work in implementing programs, projects and activities and pivotal role in the delivery of government services amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and present socio-economic challenge,” the order reads.
For those who have rendered less than four months of actual satisfactory performance of service, they may also be granted a one-time gratuity pay on a pro-rata basis, which are the following:
* an amount not exceeding P4,000 for three months but less than four months
* an amount not exceeding P3,000 for those who have rendered two months but less than three months
* an amount not exceeding P2,000 for those who have rendered less than two months.
Earlier, regular employees of the Guimaras provincial government each received P20,000 in Collective Negotiation Agreement (CNA) Incentive while DCGNPH personnel received P17,500.
Regular employees in government hospitals receive lesser CNA Incentive as its budget depends on savings. (With a report from the Philippine Daily Inquirer)/PN
