Question & AnswerQ&A (DBM NATIONAL COMPENSATION CIRCULAR NO. 72)
The purpose is to prescribe rules and regulations to govern the initial implementation of the Revised Compensation and Position Classification System as mandated under Executive Order No. 164, providing for the increase in basic salaries effective January 1, 1994.
All positions whether permanent, temporary, contractual, casual, or emergency in nature, appointive or elective, on full-time or part-time basis now existing or hereafter created in the national government, state universities and colleges, and government-owned and/or controlled corporations and financial institutions.
Consultants and experts hired for limited periods, student laborers and apprentices, and laborers hired as part of a job contract (pakiao) or paid on piecework basis including mail contractors.
Present salary means the actual basic salary rates received as of December 31, 1993, exclusive of allowances such as PERA, additional compensation, representation and transportation allowances, bonuses, honoraria, and other forms of additional compensation.
It refers to the excess of the present salary over the eighth step of the grade allocation of the employee's position.
Salary Grades 1 to 10 received an increase of Eight Hundred Pesos (P800.00) per month, and Salary Grade 11 upwards received an increase of Seven Hundred Pesos (P700.00) per month.
No, PERA and Additional Compensation continue to be paid as allowances and are not considered integrated into the basic salary rates contained in the Interim Salary Schedule.
Contractual employees may be entitled to not more than 120% of the adjusted minimum hiring rate of comparable regular positions.
Wage rates of daily paid employees shall be computed by dividing the monthly salary rate by twenty-two working days, with the total wages in a month not to exceed the corresponding monthly salary rate.
The Head of the government agency is responsible and shall be held personally liable for any payment of salary adjustment not in accordance with the Circular, including refund of any excess payment by employees.
Agencies must prepare a Plantilla of Personnel and Salary Adjustment Form (PPSAF), certify and submit copies to the Compensation and Position Classification Bureau (CPCB), Civil Service Commission, Commission on Audit, and keep records for post-audit within thirty days after the salary adjustment.
Their salary adjustments take effect only after the expiration of their respective present terms, and for Senators after the expiration of the term of all incumbent Senators.
Yes, they are subject to mandatory GSIS life and retirement insurance premiums and Home Development Mutual Fund (HDMF) contributions if the recipient is a member thereof.
The amount shall be charged against the Compensation Adjustment Fund and other appropriations set aside under RA 7663 and the 1994 General Appropriations Act. Any deficiency shall be charged against agency savings.
Heads of all national government agencies and corporate entities are prohibited from granting any salary adjustment in excess of the amounts authorized under this Circular.