GMA is Overworked & Underpaid!

[safeorigin]

it's an adjustment if ever the government goes unicameral federal government. ala na kasing senador pag ganun

[chua_riwap]

Binawi na.........


http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?...ec=1&aid=71827
Sept 3, 2008

GMA Pay Hike, Scrapped

A day after giving assurances the new pay scale under the proposed national budget for 2009 will benefit all government employees including the President, Budget Secretary Rolando Andaya, Jr. said the pay hike “clearly stipulates that the sitting President, Vice President, senators and congressmen are barred from receiving such an increase.”

Amid criticisms that a salary hike for President Macapagal-Arroyo is not justified, Andaya said the proposed joint resolution they submitted to Congress clearly states that the salary adjustment for the president, vice president and members of Congress “shall take effect only after the expiration of the terms.”

“The increase will be prospective in nature. The next president will be the one who will be entitled to it…In fact, all public sector wage orders signed by the President during her term clearly exempted her from the increase, “he said.

Andaya said this constitutional provision is the reason why the salary of the President has remained at P57,750 despite the three salary increases for government workers since January 2006.

“While she was the one who inked the executive orders for the wage increases, she did not benefit from any of them, “Andaya said.

The political opposition raised a howl over the planned salary hike saying Mrs. Arroyo should instead resign and get a better paying job elsewhere.

In the proposed resolution for salary increase for government workers which Andaya submitted to Congress simultaneous with the P1.415 trillion national budget for 2009, the President will get a 100-percent salary increase under a four-year, government-wide pay scale upgrading plan along with other top government officials.

Andaya however explained that the salary of the President was adjusted in principle to allow room for wage increases of positions below her.

“The ceiling must be raised, as the government pay scale consists of 257 gradations which must have pay differentials in between,” he said.

[CVT]

She keeps a very tight schedule.... But, you can say that again....

6610:secret:

[CVT]

She keeps a very tight schedule.... But, you can say that again....

6610:secret:

[Jun aka Pekto]

Well, to be fair, being a head of state is hard work. Has anyone seen before and after photos of different world leaders? Take Honest Abe Lincoln for example and Dubya as a more recent one. They looked like wrinkled prunes toward the end of their presidency.

[CVT]

IMO, Dubya is already a 'wrinkled prune' from the very start....

6610:secret:

[CVT]

This double post thing has already made me a 'wrinkled prune'......

6707:choir:

[4wrider]

Singapore's Prime Minister is receives a much higher salary than that of the US President. And the Singaporean government employees generously paid. One reason why corruption there is almost non-existent.

Here, a janitor in GSIS receives almost twice the salary of the BIR or Customs examiner. The examiner has discretionary power to recommend an assessment that can force a multibillion peso plant of a major multinational to close down leaving thousands of well paid workers to lose their job, yet, the Philippine Congress has refused allowed this stupid situation to persist.

Salary should be commensurate with the job requirement and the authority it carries.

So what happens is the economic law that the price of service will seek its own level, that may very well be in the black market of bribes and corruption.

[DON2003]

simple answer for simple question,

they don't need the salary, they want to SERVE the people, their spouses are very hardworking on the sideline.

[DON2003]

simple answer for simple question,

they don't need the salary, they want to SERVE the people, their spouses are very hardworking on the sideline.