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PNoy signs EO on gov’t workers’ pay hike


President Benigno Aquino III has signed an executive order providing for increases in the salaries of government officials and employees including those in the uniformed services, Malacañang announced on Friday.

Presidential Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said Aquino approved and signed the executive order upon his arrival from the US, where he attended the ASEAN-US Summit and met with US business leaders.

"The EO provides for the implementation of the first of the four tranches provided for in the proposed [Salary Standardization Law of 2015] or SSL 4 that has not been enacted by Congress," Coloma said in a statement.

"Authority to implement the first tranche is given in RA 10717 (or the 2016 General Appropriations Act) which provides a budget of P57.9 billion," he added.

The EO will cover the salary increases for the government officials and employees for 2016.

Both the Senate and the House of Representatives both passed the SSL 4 bill but were bogged down in the bicameral conference committee.

The Senate contingent had insisted on indexing increases in the pensions of retired military and police personnel to the pay hikes provided for active staff. House leaders, however, said that there were no available funds for the pension hikes. 

The proposed SSL 4 provides for four tranches of salary increases in the government service from January 1, 2016 to January 1, 2019.

The EO, however, only covers the first tranche salary hikes in 2016 because it is the only one covered by an allocation under the 2016 national budget. —NB, GMA News

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