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Senate measure
seeks 5th round
of salaryhike
A BILLthat desires to give
govelnment employeestheir

tifth round of salary increases a key proposal of the

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Duterte administration - has been filed atthe Senate
Senator Emmanuel Joel J. Villanueva proposed an
average salary increase of l0% yearly fiom 2020
to
2022 under Senate Bill1136 or the salary Standardiza-
tion Law V accordlng to a copy ofthe measure'
The increase will cover the nations'1J million career
and non-care€r civil service employees.
''Ihis billseek to improve thespending power
of ordinary government employees whose spending
power has been eroded by inflation," MrVillanueva
said ln the bill's explanatory note.-
The proposed measure was among the bills men-
tloned by President Rodrigo R. Duterte in hisfourth
State of the Nation Address in July. He mentioned the
incluslon of teachers and nurses.
the bill will cover all civilian government p€Mnnel,
including those under the Executiw Legislature and
Judiciary Worke6 in government-0wned and controlled
orpontions, government financial institutioN and lo(al

govemrnent units will also benefit ftom the propospd la!Y'

SpeakerAlan Peter S. cayetano earlier said con-
gresmen would prioritize measures that Mr' Duterte
mentioned in his yearly address t0 lawmakers.
Albay Rep. Jose Ma. Clemente S. Salceda earliersaid
the measure would cost the government about P110
billion for three Years.
The last tranche of the salary increase that covered
government
both civilian and military personnel in the
was implemented in March
There are two other senate bills onthe salary
increase and at least tive counterpart bills at the House
of Representatives pendlng at the committee level -
Charmalne A. Tadalan

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