It won’t be a happy Labor Day for government employees.
“President Noynoy Aquino said he is no Scrooge, but he could not promise something that cannot be delivered so he announced that government workers will not get a salary increase this year for lack of budget,” reports Aurea Calica in The Philippine Star.
The report noted that “Aquino explained that there are 1.6 million members of the bureaucracy and increasing their salary would entail a huge amount of money.”
Aquino also pointed out that “the government has just finished implementing the Salary Standardization Law III that mandated regular increase in the salaries of state workers, so granting another hike may result in deficit.”
Well, at least there are the free LRT/ MRT rides
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