{"id":274838,"date":"2020-11-10T19:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T00:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=274838"},"modified":"2020-11-10T19:00:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T00:00:47","slug":"up-to-cabinet-to-donate-bonus-to-typhoon-hit-victims-roque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/11\/10\/up-to-cabinet-to-donate-bonus-to-typhoon-hit-victims-roque\/","title":{"rendered":"Up to Cabinet to donate bonus to typhoon-hit victims: Roque"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Malaca\u00f1ang on Tuesday said it will be up to members of the Duterte Cabinet to decide whether they will donate their Christmas bonus to victims in typhoon-hit areas. (File Photo<\/a>: Civil Defense PH\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Malaca\u00f1ang on Tuesday said it will be up to members of the Duterte Cabinet to decide whether they will donate their Christmas bonus to victims in typhoon-hit areas.<\/p>\n

Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said he \u201cvoluntarily\u201d donated a month\u2019s worth of his salary to students studying Theology.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether or not\u00a0magdo<\/em>-donate\u00a0po ang mga miyembro ng Gabinete, kaniya-kaniya po iyan. Ako po kahapon ay nag<\/em>-donate\u00a0ako ng<\/em>\u00a0one month (Whether or not members of Cabinet donate, it\u2019s up to them. Yesterday, I donated one month\u2019s worth of my salary) to a divinity school to support poor but deserving students of Theology,\u201d he said in a Palace briefing.<\/p>\n

Last April, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said majority of the members of the Cabinet volunteered to donate their monthly salary to help the government’s fight against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).<\/p>\n

Nograles said he was one of the Cabinet members who donated their salaries.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Anakalusugan Rep. Mike Defensor, chair of the public accounts committee of the House of Representatives, said around 1.5 million government workers will be receiving their Christmas bonus equivalent to a month’s salary–plus PHP5,000 cash gift starting this week.<\/p>\n

He said the Christmas bonus is based on Salary Standardization 5 or Republic Act 11466, which stipulated that such yearend bonus will be given every November.<\/p>\n

Once funds are already available, he said agencies could begin giving the bonus on Nov. 15.<\/p>\n

Under RA 11466, the salary adjustment will be implemented in four tranches from 2020 to 2023.<\/p>\n

The biggest increases, ranging from 20 percent to 30 percent by a weighted average of 23.24 percent every year until 2023, would apply to government workers under the Salary Grades 10 to 15 bracket.<\/p>\n

President Rodrigo Duterte is likely to place areas successively ravaged by Typhoon Quinta and Super Typhoon Rolly under a state of calamity, Roque earlier said.<\/p>\n

The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council recommended that Bicol, Region 4-A (Calabarzon), and Region 4-B (Mimaropa) be placed under a state of calamity because of almost PHP17 billion worth of damage wrought by \u201cQuinta\u201d and \u201cRolly\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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