THE GOVERNMENT will start issuing midyear bonuses to civil servants by May 15, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) said.
“Starting May 15, more than 1.5 million government workers will receive their fiscal year 2018 midyear bonus, which is equivalent to one month basic salary,” Budget Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno said during a briefing yesterday.
He added that he signed on May 8 the guidelines for government agencies giving out the bonus.
Mr. Diokno said that about P36.2 billion has been allocated for the midyear bonus.
To qualify for the bonus, the government personnel should have “rendered at least a total or an aggregate of four months of service from July 1, 2017 to May 15, 2018; remain in the government service as of May 15, 2018; and obtained at least a satisfactory performance rating in the applicable performance appraisal period.”
The bonus covers all civilian personnel, whether regular, casual, or contractual in nature, appointive or elective, full-time or part-time, in the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches, the Constitutional Commissions and other Constitutional Offices, state universities and colleges, and selected state-run corporations under the Compensation and Position Classification System (CPCS).
It also includes personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, employees of the Department of National Defense and personnel of the Philippine National Police, Philippine Public Safety College, Bureau of Fire Protection, and Bureau of Jail Management and Penology of the Department of the Interior and Local Government; the Philippine Coast Guard of the Department of Transportation and Communications; and the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
However, it excludes government corporations that are exempt from the CPCS, government corporations under the Governance Commission on Government-Owned and -Controlled Corporations, those hired without employer-employee relationships and funded from non-Personnel Services appropriations/budgets such as consultants, jobs on a piecework basis, student-workers, and those under job orders. — Elijah Joseph C. Tubayan
