While most of us get our salaries via our ATM savings accounts, some employees of the Makati City government still get cold hard cash on pay days.
“According to a Commission on Audit (COA) report, Makati City still pays its roughly 9,000 employees by stuffing cash in envelopes every pay day,” report Gil C. Cabacungan and Jaymee T. Gamil in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Apparently, the COA discovered the crude handling of the payroll during a series of cash examinations in December last year, where they noted that PHP35.8 million in cash (for the salaries of regular and casual employees and payroll bonuses and incentives for public school teachers) was handled by four disbursing officers at the Makati City Hall. That meant these four people stuffed cash into envelopes.
The COA has advised Makati to convert to the ATM system to save on man-hours and supplies. The report then revealed, “In a telephone interview with the Inquirer, Makati Public Information Officer Joey Salgado admitted that the shift to the ATM system had actually been in the works since the 1990s, but kept being deferred due to repeated changes at the top in the personnel department.”
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