City employees to receive cash incentive

By ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.
Regular employees of the Davao City government will receive their P20,000 cash incentive under the Collective Negotiating Agreement (CNA) by the end of April, Human Resource Management Office (HRMO) head Erwin Alapraque said.
In an interview, Alapraque told reporters that the P20,000 incentive for the plantilla employees is part of the CNA between the City Government and Davao City Hall Employees Association (DACHEA) inked in 2014 which will give P25,000 incentive to the regular employees of the city.
“The remaining P20,000 of the P25,000 will be released, hopefully before the month of April,” Alaparaque said.
He said that in 2014, the city released the initial P5,000 to the more than 2,600 plantilla employees of the city.
Alparaque said that source of funds of the CNA incentive will be drawn from the savings from the Maintenance Operating and Other Expenses (MOOE) of the city.
A data from City Budget Office stated there are 2, 676 regular employees will be covered by the CNA incentive provision.
The CNA stated that 2,500 of the employees are from the offices of the city, from City Mayor’s Office down to the City Cooperative. There are 112 employees in the public markets, 37 in the slaughter house, 17 in Davao City Overland Transport Terminal (DCOTT) and 10 in the public cemeteries.
Alparaque said that the CNA incentive is part of the P463 million Supplemental Budget 2 for 2015 in which more than P53 million is allocated to fund it which will be discussed in today’s regular session.