Cash for Mandaue workers approved

CEBU, Philippines -  The Mandaue City Council has approved an ordinance granting yearend cash incentives in a form of calamity assistance amounting to P5,000 to all job order employees and traffic enforcers in the city and another P3,000 cash incentives to Clean and Green personnel and barangay health nutrition workers.

Section 2 of the ordinance states that job orders and traffic enforcers   who have rendered at least a four months service preceding November 30, 2014 shall receive the full P5,000  amount while the P3,000 will be given to Clean and Green workers and BHNW who have rendered the same.

On the other hand, personnel who have rendered less than four months of service as of November 30, 2014 shall only be entitled to a pro-rated calamity assistance, wherein those who have a length of service of three months but less than four months will receive 50 percent of the calamity assistance; two months but less than three months will receive 40 percent ; one month but less than two months 40 percent ; and for those who have served the city for less than a month will receive 20 percent .

City Treasurer Regal Oliva, in a press conference yesterday, defended that the giving of the cash aid, saying it is just appropriate considering that these workers were the frontliners during the preparations for typhoon Ruby last week.

The typhoon did not cause any casualty and damage to the city.

Oliva clarified that the budget for the cash incentives will not be taken from the city's calamity fund but from the surplus of the Maintenance and Operating Expenses of the departments where they are assigned.  (FREEMAN)