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SALARY WOES OF PAGCOR EMPLOYEES NOW SOLVED – TULFO

Governance Commission for GOCCs (GCG) Chairperson Atty. Marius Corpus and Commissioner Atty. Geraldine Marie Martinez along with other GCG employees recently visited Senator Raffy Tulfo’s office to deliver good news. Corpus and Martinez showed Tulfo an official document baring that GCG have already accomplished its promise to fix the Compensation and Position Classification System (CPCS) […]

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VILLAFUERTE TO CONGRESS: OK 2 PRO-TEACHER BILLS

A week into this year’s celebration of National Teachers’ Month, CamSur Rep. LRay Villafuerte is asking  the Congress to put on the front burner twin measures bumping up the  pay and making permanent the teaching supplies’ allowance of some 800,000 public school teachers. Villafuerte made this appeal in support of President Marcos’ renewed commitment to deliver on his 2023 […]

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12,399 FILIPINO NURSES TAKE US LICENSURE EXAM

A total of 12,399 nursing graduates from the Philippines took the U.S. licensure examination for the first time from January to September this year, in hopes of practicing their profession in America, Quezon City Rep. Marvin Rillo said on Sunday. “The nine-month figures already surpassed the 9,788 Filipino nursing graduates that took the U.S. admissibility […]

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DAGUPAN MAYOR DONATES SALARY AS CASH GIFTS

Dagupan Mayor Marc Brian Lim has donated four months’ worth of his salary and year-end bonus, to be divided as a cash gift to the city government’s job order (JO) employees. “Pasensya na kayo, medyo maliit lang ‘yon. Pero at least mayroon kayong matatanggap (I apologize as the amount is meager but at least you […]

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GOV’T CONTRACTUAL WORKERS TO GET PAY DURING ENHANCED COMMUNITY QUARANTINE – VILLANUEVA

Officials from the Civil Service Commission (CSC) and the Commission on Audit (COA) have agreed to the proposal of Senator Joel Villanueva for the continued pay of Metro Manila-based contractuals working in government while the national capital region is under an enhanced community quarantine to stem the spread of COVID-19. CSC and COA will hammer […]

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INCREASE MINIMUM PAY OF TEACHERS – ANGARA

Senator Sonny Angara said government should set a higher minimum pay for teachers if it wants to recruit and retain highly effective educators who will prepare Filipino students for the challenges of the future. “If we value education and we intend to create a more educated generation of Filipinos, then we need to pay teachers […]