QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 218)
To implement the second year of a new government salary schedule by directing a second interim salary schedule effective January 1, 1995, reflecting an increase of P1,000 over basic monthly salaries as of December 31, 1994.
An increase of one thousand pesos (P1,000.00) over the basic monthly salaries of government personnel as of December 31, 1994.
January 1, 1995.
The powers vested in the President by the Constitution, R.A. No. 6758, P.D. No. 985, and P.D. No. 1597.
The new salary schedule was adopted in Joint Senate-House of Representatives Resolution No. 1, series of 1994; it was initially implemented in 1994 in accordance with Executive Order No. 164 and National Compensation Circular No. 72.
DBM must implement a second interim salary schedule effective January 1, 1995 with a P1,000 increase over salaries as of December 31, 1994; heads of all agencies and LGUs shall not grant compensation adjustments in excess of the authorized amount.
Officials and employees of the national government, GOCCs (including government financial institutions), and LGUs whose basic salaries conform to the new Salary Schedule prescribed under Executive Order No. 164.
No. Section 2 states they are not entitled to the salary increase authorized in the Executive Order.
The Personnel Economic Relief Allowance and the additional compensation authorized under Administrative Order No. 53 shall continue to be paid as allowances and shall not be integrated into basic pay.
National government entities: changed against appropriations set aside for the purpose in the 1995 GAA and from savings generated by departments/agencies; thereafter included in annual GAA. GOCCs: from their respective corporate funds. LGUs: charged against their respective local funds.
It shall only partially implement the established rates, but any partial implementation must be uniform and proportionate for all positions within that corporate entity or LGU.
Not uniformly. Section 5 provides that the compensation adjustment for the President, Vice-President, and House Representatives takes effect only after the expiration of the respective term of the present incumbents; for Senators, only after the expiration of the term of all incumbent Senators.
Section 6 of Article VII (President and Vice-President) and Section 10 of Article VI (Members of the House and Senate) of the Constitution.
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM).
They are prohibited from granting any compensation adjustment in excess of the amount authorized (P1,000).
Entitlement applies to those whose basic salaries conform to the new salary schedule prescribed under EO 164; those already higher than the prescribed schedule are not entitled.
It indicates that Congress appropriated P15.1 billion in the CY 1995 General Appropriations Act to cover, among others, the authorized adjustment in basic salary for the second year implementation.