SOLON URGES RE-GRANTING OF AMELIORATION PAY
For: CustomsWeek Desk - 09/10/99
attn: Inday Varona / Mitos Garcia
c/o Bobby Nazareno
fax no - 5275349
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by: Terence Mordeno Grana
A NEOPHYTE congressman takes the cudgel on behalf of the government employees to urge the President to reconsider and lift the scrapping of the amelioration pay of the civil servants of the country.
In a resolution that he filed, Laguna Representative (Rep.) Danton Q. Bueser urged his colleagues in the House of Representatives to join him in earnestly requesting President Joseph Ejercito Estrada to reconsider Administrative Order No. 87 which prohibits the grant of amelioration pay to the government workers.
It could be recalled that on September 24, President Estrada issued the order “to enable the government to generate savings to be used for its priority projects.”
Rep. Bueser said in his principally authored House Resolution No. 1193 that the amelioration pay has already been enjoyed by government employees for the past two Christmases which not only enabled them to enjoy and celebrate the seasons meaningfully but also help alleviate the high cost of living and make both ends meet even after the holidays.
The youthful solon reasoned that the financial crisis in Asia triggered a rise in the cost of living and the meager salaries and wages of the rank and file employees could hardly meet the new rounds of price increases as evidenced by the current clamor of government employees for a P3000.00 across-the-board increase in pay.
The scrapping of the amelioration pay, Bueser added, would likely be perceived as a total lack of concern of the government for the deplorable plight and a complete disregard of their petition to have an increase in their salary.
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attn: Inday Varona / Mitos Garcia
c/o Bobby Nazareno
fax no - 5275349
--------------------------
by: Terence Mordeno Grana
A NEOPHYTE congressman takes the cudgel on behalf of the government employees to urge the President to reconsider and lift the scrapping of the amelioration pay of the civil servants of the country.
In a resolution that he filed, Laguna Representative (Rep.) Danton Q. Bueser urged his colleagues in the House of Representatives to join him in earnestly requesting President Joseph Ejercito Estrada to reconsider Administrative Order No. 87 which prohibits the grant of amelioration pay to the government workers.
It could be recalled that on September 24, President Estrada issued the order “to enable the government to generate savings to be used for its priority projects.”
Rep. Bueser said in his principally authored House Resolution No. 1193 that the amelioration pay has already been enjoyed by government employees for the past two Christmases which not only enabled them to enjoy and celebrate the seasons meaningfully but also help alleviate the high cost of living and make both ends meet even after the holidays.
The youthful solon reasoned that the financial crisis in Asia triggered a rise in the cost of living and the meager salaries and wages of the rank and file employees could hardly meet the new rounds of price increases as evidenced by the current clamor of government employees for a P3000.00 across-the-board increase in pay.
The scrapping of the amelioration pay, Bueser added, would likely be perceived as a total lack of concern of the government for the deplorable plight and a complete disregard of their petition to have an increase in their salary.
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