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The city government of Bacolod is set to release P41.5 million in hazard pay and special risk allowance for employees who rendered frontline and other essential services during the 47-day enhanced community quarantine (ECQ). During its regular session recently, the City Council presided by Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran unanimously approved the appropriation for the […]
Senator Joel Villanueva has filed measures seeking to give essential personnel both in the private and public sectors hazard pay, given the risks faced by these workers, especially during this time of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic where virus transmission is very high. Citing the plight of sanitation workers such as street sweepers and garbage […]
Senator Sonny Angara welcomed the grant of hazard pay and a special risk allowance to public health workers who continuously serve the nation at this critical time, but emphasized that volunteers should also be included. Administrative Order No. 26, which was issued recently, authorizes the grant of hazard pay to government personnel and enumerates its […]
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) is pushing to give its traffic enforcers hazard pay. MMDA Chairman Danilo Lim told around 300 traffic enforcers during their assembly that he will be writing a letter to President Rodrigo Duterte asking for the granting of their hazard pay, in recognition of their efforts in managing traffic along […]