Senate President Juan Miguel “Migz” F. Zubiri Senate PRIB file photograph / Joseph Vidal
MANILA, Philippines — The Senate is rising this yr’s inflationary adjustment assist of its staff from P12,200 to P50,000, Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri introduced on Monday.
If the worker’s fundamental month-to-month wage is greater, he/she’s going to obtain the quantity equal to the month-to-month pay, as an alternative of P50,000.
“To help you all deal with your daily expenses, we have improved the inflationary adjustment assistance. Tumaas ang inflation. Dapat itaas din natin ang assistance (Inflation increased. Assistance should likewise go up),” Zubiri stated through the Senate’s flag elevating ceremony.
“Kaya mula P12,200, gagawin natin itong P50,000 or your basic monthly salary, whichever is higher. Basta guaranteed na po ang P50,000 diyan and you can expect this in August,” he added.
(From P12,200, we are going to make it P50,000 or your month-to-month fundamental wage, whichever is greater. The P50,000 is assured and you’ll count on this in August.)
All 3,000 staff of the Senate will obtain the one-time inflationary help, stated Zubiri.
The medical help for workers likewise swelled from P30,000 to P50,000.
Zubiri famous that the incentives are sourced from the Senate’s financial savings. He then appealed to spend much less to ensure that staff to obtain extra.
“Ang pakiusap ko nga kanina na sana we spend less on paper, we spend less on overtime para maibalik din sa mga empleyado itong savings na natatanggap namin in terms of incentives and bonuses para ganun ay napakaganda ng trabaho ng ating empleyado at nakikita n’yo naman highly motivated sila,” the Senate President stated in an interview after the flag elevating ceremony.
(I urged us to spend much less on paper, we spend much less on extra time to return the financial savings to staff when it comes to incentives and bonuses in order that they are going to work nicely and you’ll see that they’re extremely motivated.)
Zubiri additional stated that he’s supporting plans to extend staff’ minimal wage.
“Ako ay sumusuporta sa planong itaas ang (I am supporting plans to increase the) minimum wage. The minimum wage is not necessarily a living wage. Ang (Our) living wage po natin ngayon ay mataas sa (is higher than the) minimum wage,” he stated.
Current day by day minimal wage in Metro Manila is P570.
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