NV provincial employees get 10% wage adjustment

BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya – It’s an early Christmas for the more than 1,000 employees of the provincial government.

This, as the provincial board approved this week a resolution granting a 10-percent adjustment in their monthly take-home pay, the first of such increase here in six years.

The salary increase, according to Dominick Ruam, president of the provincial government employees’ association, was in compliance with President Arroyo’s executive order earlier this year asking local governments to give their workers a more decent standard of living amid the rising prices of basic commodities.

Under the appropriation ordinance, the wage hike, scheduled for signing next week by Gov. Luisa Lloren-Cuaresma, is retroactive to July 1 this year.

Board member Efren Quiben, the board’s appropriation committee chairman, said they allocated P8.5 million to cover the wage increase of provincial government employees this year.

The provincial government also allocated P2.4 million to cover the P1,000 increase in the monthly pay of the provincial government-funded health workers for the remaining months of the current year.