In this age of digital banking, some people want to remain in the Dark Ages.
“In the wake of the news exposing Makati City as the Metro Manila LGU that still pays the services of its 9,000 employees in cold cash, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) explained that it does not require local government units (LGUs) to adopt the automated teller machines (ATM) in disbursing salaries of their employees,” reports Marlon Ramos in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
However, DILG Undersecretary Austere Panadero cited as examples those far-flung municipalities that have no ATM facilities. That’s hardly how Makati City is described. Panadero quipped that, perhaps, “most of the LGUs in Metro Manila happen to see the advantages of using the ATM system.”
But, apparently, not Makati, the nation’s financial hub.
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