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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Monday, February 20, 2017
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BACOLOD City – The Sangguniang Panlungsod asked the City Treasurer’s Office to release the salaries of job-order employees early during paydays.
Every payday the office starts releasing the salaries of job-order workers late in the afternoon, the councilors observed.
“This causes job-order employees as well as the [Treasurer’s Office] staff to stay late in the office,” read part of a city council resolution authored by Councilor Cindy Rojas and approved last week.
Employees spend so much time waiting in line for their salaries, hampering government services and limiting “fruitful hours” with their respective families, the councilors said.
Councilors also urged the city government, national government agencies, the press, and the locals to observe the National Women’s Month in March.
The National Women’s Month is being observed to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women, they said in another resolution.
Republic Act 6949 declared March 8 of every year as National Women’s Day, a working special holiday, in observance of the International Women’s Day, they said.
Moreover, in his State of the Nation Address in 2016, President Rodrigo Duterte directed all agencies, oversight bodies and local government units to fully implement the Magna Carta of Women, said the councilors.
“This year’s theme, ‘We Make Change Work for Women,’ is anchored on the administration’s commitment of ‘Malasakit at Pagbabago,’ or True Compassion and Real Change,” said the city council.
The Gender and Development Council has prepared activities in line with the observance./PN
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