{"id":65937,"date":"2015-11-30T06:12:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T12:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=65937"},"modified":"2015-11-30T06:12:02","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T12:12:02","slug":"national-budget-govt-salary-hike-approval-seen-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/11\/30\/national-budget-govt-salary-hike-approval-seen-before-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"National budget, gov\u2019t salary hike approval seen before Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_56543\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56543\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2011_Philippine_State_of_the_Nation_Address.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56543\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2011_Philippine_State_of_the_Nation_Address.jpg\" alt=\"The Plenary Hall, House of Representatives Complex, Constitution Hills, Quezon City (Photo by Malaca\u00f1ang Photo Bureau\/Robert Vi\u00f1as)\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2011_Philippine_State_of_the_Nation_Address.jpg 750w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2011_Philippine_State_of_the_Nation_Address-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2011_Philippine_State_of_the_Nation_Address-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Plenary Hall, House of Representatives Complex, Constitution Hills, Quezon City<br \/>(Photo by Malaca\u00f1ang Photo Bureau\/Robert Vi\u00f1as)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 House Speaker Feliciano \u201cSonny\u201d Belmonte Jr. sought for the passage of the proposed 2016 national budget and the P226-billion Salary Standardization Law of 2015 (SSL) before the Congress adjourns for the Christmas break.<\/p>\n<p>Belmonte wanted both measures to be approved on or before December 16, noting that 1.53 million state workers will benefit from the wage hike and even more Filipinos will be able to avail services provided by the government once the national budget was approved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe already passed it on second reading. It is already funded by the 2016 budget. We can approve it on third reading before or same day as the budget,\u201d the House Chief said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Belmonte then appealed for the lawmakers\u2019 attendance in the plenary session. He earlier vowed to pass the SSL on final reading when the Congress resumed session after the Philippines\u2019 hosting of this year\u2019s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit.<\/p>\n<p>The House Independent Bloc also committed towards the immediate approval of the budget and the pro-workers\u2019 bill as they sought \u2018to extend <em>malasakit<\/em> (compassion) to our state workers.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey really need economic relief to decently support their basic needs,\u201d Leyte Representative Martin Romualdez said in a Manila Bulletin report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should further examine the measure by pushing higher increase than the proposal offers for low-level and middle-level employees like teachers and nurses because they need better pay the most,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 House Speaker Feliciano \u201cSonny\u201d Belmonte Jr. sought for the passage of the proposed 2016 national budget and the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":56543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-65937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65937","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}