Mandaue SP approves incentives for workers

CEBU, Philippines - The Mandaue City council has approved an ordinance on second and final reading granting additional productivity incentives to all city officials and regular employees earning a monthly salary of P10,000 per month and above for this year.

Also to be given incentives are job order, Clean and Green, and barangay nutrition health workers.

Mandaue City Councilor Beethoven C. Andaya, chairman of the committee on budget and finance introduced the appropriation ordinance.

The Department of Budget and Management issued Budget Circular No. 2010-3 dated November 30, 2010 setting the guidelines on the granting of the Productivity Enhancement Incentives (PEI) to government personnel for fiscal year 2010 pursuant to Administrative Order No. 3 (authorizing the grant of PEI to government employees for fiscal year 2010 issued by President Benigno Aquino III on November 25, 2010.

The issuance is in accordance with item (4) (h) (ii) of the Senate and House of Representative Joint Resolution No. 4 which was approved on June 17, 2009 providing incentives for government personnel including rewards for exceeding agency financial and operational performance targets, and to motivate employees towards higher productivity.