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PRESIDENT Arroyo on Wednesday granted a performance
bonus for all state workers this year, citing the
country’s “robust” economic growth and efficient
government operations that led to savings in the
national government.
The
President authorized the grant of a P10,000 performance
bonus for state workers who have served the government
for at least four months as of end-November. The grant
was contained in Administrative Order (AO) 213 dated
December 12.
The
President said in AO 213 that “the robust growth of the
economy and the commendable effort exerted by government
agencies in attaining efficiency in government
operations have contributed to the generation of
savings” and that “government personnel have contributed
to this effort by discharging their duties with
dispatch.”
Under AO
213, all workers in national government agencies and
government-owned or -controlled corporations (GOCCs),
including government financial institutions (GFIs),
whether hired on permanent, temporary, casual or on
contractual basis and employed for the last four months
as of November 30, 2007, are each entitled to a one-time
P10,000 performance bonus.
Government personnel with less than four months of
service as of November 30 shall be entitled to a
performance bonus on a prorated basis. For those who
have been working for three months but less than four
months, 40 percent; two months but less than three
months, 30 percent; one month but less than two months,
20 percent; and less than one month, 10 percent.
The
performance bonus shall be granted to all government
personnel who have not received any additional year-end
benefit in fiscal year 2007, over and above the benefits
authorized under Republic Act 6686, as amended by RA
8441, on the granting of Christmas bonus and cash gift.
AO 213
provides that for NGAs, except the constitutional
offices/fiscal autonomy group (Cfag), P7,000 of the
required amount will be charged against additional funds
to be released by the Department of Budget and
Management (DBM), chargeable against savings from the
unreleased appropriations under the 2007 budget which
shall be pooled by the DBM for this purpose; the
remaining P3,000 will be charged against savings in the
respective agencies.
If the
agency’s savings are not enough to fully cover the
remaining P3,000 per employee, a partial implementation
of the benefit shall be made “uniform for all
positions,” subject to the conditions on the length of
employment.
For
agencies belonging to the Cfag, the amount required
shall be charged against their available savings; for
GOCCs and GFIs, from their respective approved corporate
budget.
GOCCs
and GFIs with insufficient resources may partially
implement the bonus, provided that it is uniform for all
positions.
The DBM
will craft the implementing rules and regulations for
the performance bonus, which will be paid out not
earlier than December 15. |
