{"id":35820,"date":"2014-12-18T00:52:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T16:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=35820"},"modified":"2014-12-18T01:04:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T17:04:27","slug":"manila-city-hall-pays-up-back-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/18\/manila-city-hall-pays-up-back-wages\/","title":{"rendered":"Manila City Hall pays up back wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14523\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/NATIONAL_HEROES_MONUMENTMANILA_CITY_HALL_PARK-by-Obra19-CC-BY-SA-3.0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14523\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/NATIONAL_HEROES_MONUMENTMANILA_CITY_HALL_PARK-by-Obra19-CC-BY-SA-3.0-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"National Heroes Monument, Manila City Hall Park\/ Photo by Obra19\/ CC BY-SA 3.0\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/NATIONAL_HEROES_MONUMENTMANILA_CITY_HALL_PARK-by-Obra19-CC-BY-SA-3.0-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/NATIONAL_HEROES_MONUMENTMANILA_CITY_HALL_PARK-by-Obra19-CC-BY-SA-3.0.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">National Heroes Monument, Manila City Hall Park\/ Photo by Obra19\/ CC BY-SA 3.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Aside from their 13<sup>th<\/sup> month pay, employees of Manila City Hall have something else to look forward to this coming Christmas season, and that is their long-overdue salary increase.<\/p>\n<p><span data-term=\"goog_582723474\">On Tuesday<\/span> Manila Treasurer Liberty Toledo said that the Salary Standardization Law will be implemented this month, meaning all personnel will be receiving the due wage hike since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will pay employees the equivalent of the wage hike they [should have] received from January 2014 this year,\u201d said Toledo added.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the said law was supposed to be enacted January of last year.<\/p>\n<p>However, due to budget constraints, they can only pay the back wages of the employees starting 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Toledo noted that Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada wanted the employees to receive what was due them at least before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have allocated P325 million for the retroactive salary payments to employees of the city government. As I understand it, the payroll is now being processed for the distribution of these payments,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>More than 8,000 regular and temporary government workers will benefit from the wage hike. However, both contractual and job order employees are not included.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the employees were supposed to receive their back pays last July. But Estrada said that they still needed to source the funding for this.<\/p>\n<p>Toledo noted that although the employees would only get their back wages, the city government is still looking forward to giving them the rest of what is due to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mayor and the city council could decide on that if they think that it can sufficiently be implemented with the funds that we have in the future,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Aside from their 13th month pay, employees of Manila City Hall have something else to look forward to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":14523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}