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Nation
Written by Fernan Marasigan / Reporter
Thursday, 21 May 2009 20:55
LESS than two weeks after President Arroyo certified it as urgent, the House of Representatives, in plenary session, approved on Wednesday night Joint Resolution 36 that would upgrade, rationalize and standardize compensation of all government employees.
Under the resolution the salary adjustment for State workers will be implemented first on July 1 and will be given in four tranches from 2009 to 2012.
House leaders said the program applies to all civilian government personnel, regardless of status. Military, police and other uniformed personnel are covered by a separate compensation system provided for under a substitute resolution to Joint Resolution 24.
They reiterated that the salary adjustment prescribed for the incumbent President, Vice President and members of Congress shall take effect only after the expiration of their terms.
Arroyo’s certification of the measure’s urgency made possible the simultaneous approval on second and final reading by the chamber in plenary session, Speaker Prospero Nograles said.
Under the resolution, the initial implementation shall be charged from the 2009 national government budget and from the savings of the different agencies. The succeeding tranches shall be included in the annual general appropriations act.
Besides the executive, legislative and judicial branches, those covered include the constitutional commissions, state universities and colleges, government-owned and -controlled corporations (GOCCs), government financial institutions and local governments (GFIs).
As for the GOCCs and GFIs, the amount needed shall be charged against their respective corporate funds.
All positions in the government shall be grouped into three categories, namely subprofessional or positions involved in manual or clerical work in support of office operations, or those engaged in arts, crafts and trades; professional or positions involved in the exercise of profession or application of knowledge acquired through formal education and training and executive or managerial positions involved in the executive, legislative and judicial functions.
In the proposed salary schedules, the present 33 salary grades and eight steps per salary grade shall be retained. The differences, however, between salary grades shall be rationalized to avoid overlaps.
Thesystem also follows the principle of “nondiminution of benefits.”
Government agencies authorized by law to have their own compensation and position classification system shall be governed by their respective own systems.
In addition to the resolution, the House, which adjourns sine die on June 5, also approved on third reading 57 local bills, eight local measures on second reading, adopted the Senate version of House Bill (HB) 3618 or the National Police Education Requirement Bill and approved the Conference Committee report on Senate Bill 2396 and HB 4237 or the Magna Carta of Women.
It also concurred with the Senate amendments on four other local bills on education, the judiciary and grants of franchises.
RESOLUTION APPEALING TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO REJECT JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 24 GIVING THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES AND THE DEPARTMENT OF BUDGET AND MANAGEMENT EXTRA LEGISLATIVE AND QUASI-JUDICIAL POWERS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COMPENSATION AND POSITION CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM IN THE GOVERNMENT FOR BEING AGAINST THE INTEREST OF OUR 1.2 MILLION GOVERNMENT WORKERS AND TEACHERS
Whereas, Joint Resolution No. 24 sponsored by House Speaker Prospero Nograles of Davao City and providing for a four-year 8 percent yearly increase in the monthly pay of rank-and-file government workers was filed in contention with House Bills 4734 and 5213 proposing, on the other hand, a Php 3,000 yearly salary increase for public school teachers in three years starting 2009;
Whereas, said joint resolution has been introduced to be the third in a series of government moves (R.A. 6758 in 1989 and Joint Senate-House Resolution No. 1 in 1994) to standardize the pay and position classification system in the public sector including those in government-owned and-controlled corporations (GOCCs) and government financial institutions (GFIs);
Whereas, the ambiguous wordings and phraseology of the first two salary laws and their confiscatory interpretative implementation by the DBM have been the source of protracted court battles, disappointments and demoralization of many government workers as they failed to deliver the promised relief that said laws envisioned;
Whereas, Joint Resolution No. 24, in its present form and substance, aims not only to peg government workers and teachers’ pay at below poverty levels, reduce and eventually abolish existing hard-won benefits, legalize contractualization, job insecurities and precarious conditions of work but also to leave, but this time, everything to Malacañang and DBM to implement, interpret, and decide all controversies arising from the resolution’s ambiguous provisions, including the authority to amend and modify existing general and special laws;
Whereas, such delegation of extra-legislative power to the President and DBM by our lawmakers who are constitutionally mandated to exclusively exercise such power will not only violate the principle of separation of powers enshrined in our Constitution but will also be tantamount to an abandonment of their sworn duties and serious betrayal of those who elected them to office;
Whereas, a similar delegation by way of Joint Senate-House Resolution No. 1 in 1994, though did not yet include the power to amend or modify existing laws, still has enabled a scheming DBM to under-implement at will what would have been a 4-year salary increase in 4 equal tranches into a 4-year pay hike in 5 unequal tranches – a clever move that has robbed all public school teachers of significant sums in this wise;
SALARY INCREASE OF PHP 5 503(PHP (8 605 – PHP 3 102) DISTRIBUTED IN 4 EQUAL TRANCHES PER JOINT SENATE-HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 1
of 1994
HOW DBM IMPLEMENTED THE 4-YEAR SALARY INCREASE UNDER THE JOINT SENATE-HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 1 of 1994
Yearly Increase Paid Monthly
Differential x No. of Months
Subtotals
1994 January ro December PHP 1 376
PHP 800
(576) x 13
PHP 7 488
1995 January to December PHP 1 376
PHP 1 000
(376 + 576) x 13
PHP 12 376
1996 January to December PHP 1 376
PHP 1 111
(265 + 952) x 13
PHP 15 821
1997 January to December PHP 1 376
(Jan-Oct) PHP 1 296
(Nov-Dec ‘99) PHP 1 296
296 + 1217
X 11
PHP 14 256
TOTAL AMOUNT SHORTCHANGED
PHP 49 941
Whereas, there is an urgent need to consolidate House Bill Nos. 4734, 4380 and 5213 to reciprocate the multi-partisan efforts at the Senate which made possible the early approval of Consolidated Senate Bill 2408 in July of 2008;
Foregoing premises considered, BE IT RESOLVED AS IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED to appeal to all members of the House of Representatives to reject Joint Resolution No. 24 for being against the interest of our 1.2 million government workers and teachers
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED to reproduce copies of this Resolution for distribution to all public schools for their teachers’ support signatures and presentation to in lobbying with their elected congressional representatives for the latter’s commitment and support.
Done this ninetenth day of February 2009 during the Consultative Meeting of ASSERT- NCR with other teachers organizations at the Expo Centro, Araneta Center Cubao, Quezon City
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(Please submit a photocopy of this duly accomplished resolution personally or by express mail to ASSERT’s National Office at the stated address for file and monitoring purposes)