Next week Talisay JOs to get differential pay

CEBU, Philippines -  By next week, over 1,000 job order workers of Talisay City will receive their salary differential for the year, according to City Budget Officer Edgar Mabunay.

Salary differential is the new scheme used by local government units for job order personnel after the Commission on Audit disallowed Productivity Enhancement Incentives.

According to Mabunay, some job order workers will receive P5,000 in salary differential while others will receive less depending on the amount of honorarium they are receiving.

Last Wednesday, the city's regular employees have already received their productivity incentives amounting to P30,000.

Mabunay explained that PEI is an across-the-board bonus given annually to qualified government employees. 

He added that the PEI rates were determined by the respective Sanggunian to fit their own financial capabilities, which are subject to personal service limitations.

Employees eligible for the PEI are civilian personnel who occupy regular, contractual or casual positions, whether appointive or elective, or those who render services on a full-time or part-time basis.

However, employees who do not have an employer-employee relationship with their departments or agencies, as well as those paid from non-personal services appropriations or budgets cannot receive PEI.

Some of these disqualified employees include consultants and hired experts, laborers hired through job contracts and paid on a piecework basis, student interns, and individuals or groups engaged through job orders or contracts of service.  (FREEMAN)