Not many people understand how it is to be a job order employee in the government. They are the ones doing the dirty work and the ones that get paid less. They are also the ones with no security of tenure. Disposable anytime, to say the least.
It is a pity that despite their status, they have also to suffer the hard fact that in the payment of salary, they are at the mercy of employees enjoying better status, pay and secured in their tenure. So you expect that JOs could hardly meet their needs for living and when their salary gets delayed, the only option is to run to loan sharks within the government offices.
Sad reality.
There are around 11,000 JOs in the city government as of last count and they have been facing the dilemma of dealing with delayed salary.
The culprit? Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio points to a poorly performing payroll team. The mayor lamented the poor performance of the city government offices’ payroll team which led to the delays in processing of payroll which, by government standard operating procedures, go through a number of channels and signatories.
In the ideal world, the payroll team would have prioritized the JOs in the processing of payroll and waste no time in doing so. Perhaps, set a time frame for the processing.
In this time of the pandemic where life is hard, a ton of consideration and compassion is needed for people to think about the plight of the lowly employees in their ranks.
