QUEZON City Mayor Herbert “Bistek” Bautista on Friday directed the early release of Christmas bonus for over 8,000 city hall employees, including consultants and personnel covered by service contracts.
In a memorandum circular, he instructed the budget and accounting departments to release all available funds necessary for the release of the benefits not later than Nov. 30.
Under the guidelines, all elective and appointive regular plantilla employees of the city government under permanent, temporary or co-terminus status who have rendered a total of four months of service inclusive of leave of absence with pay from Jan. 1 to Oct. 31, 2016 shall be entitled to the payment of the year-end bonus and cash gift.
The year-end bonus is equivalent to an employee’s basic month pay and P5,000 cash gift.
Consultants and employees under job contracts, including members of the People’s Law Enforcement Board, who have rendered four months of continuous service from Jan. 4 to Nov. 15 and are still connected with the city government as of November are entitled to a cash gift ranging from P3,000 to P10,000.
Contractual employees who have rendered less than four months of continuous service from Jan. 4 to Nov. 20 are entitled to a pro-rata cash benefit.
For special projects personnel, including senior citizen volunteers, community health workers, Muslim asatidz (teachers) and pre-school teachers, the cash gift shall be P2,000.
City hall employees are also entitled to receive additional incentives in December on top of the traditional Christmas bonuses.
For permanent employees, they will receive good governance and productivity enhancement incentive pay.
The incentive is equivalent to an employee’s basic monthly salary, while the productivity incentive benefit is P5,000.
As far as the consultants and employees under contract of services are concerned, the additional incentive shall amount to 50 percent of the basic monthly rate of the employee.
Special projects personnel, including senior citizen volunteers, community health workers, Muslim asatidz, pre-school teachers and riverways clearing operations group volunteers from the Environmental Protection and Waste Management Department are entitled to a flat rate incentive of P2,500.
Payment of the incentives shall be made not later than Dec. 15 for regular employees and not later than Dec. 20, for employees under job contracts.