Computerized payroll for QC

The Commission on Audit (COA) has provided the Quezon City government the software for the computerization of its payroll and the monitoring of leaves and absences of the 10,051 employees.

Manuel Sabalza, manager of the Task Force QC Information Technology program, told The Star that the city government paid the COA P532,000 for the software, which can also easily trace existence of "ghost employees."

Sabalza assured Quezon City Mayor Feliciano Belmonte Jr. that the computerization of the payroll will be in place by January next year.

"We’re in the data build-up stage," Sabalza said.

Under the present system, each department makes its own payroll and submit it to personnel every 15th and 30th of the month.

Once the new system is in place, personnel, which is the lead department in the centralization and computerization of the payroll, will update files of all departments at the City Hall.

The employees will get their salary through automated teller machines. About 8,000 employees of the city government are regular employees while more than 4,000 are contractuals. – Pia Lee-Brago