• GILBERT P. BAYORAN
Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson needs guidelines from the Department of Budget and Management for releasing the 2022 and 2023 Performance Based Bonuses (PBB) to provincial government employees.
Until such time that DBM will come up with the guidelines, then we will just have to hold on, Lacson said.
But we are ready to give actually, he added.
In previous years, Lacson admitted that the provincial government received notices issued by the Commission on Audit, in regard to the distribution of PBB.
“There were rewards that were given to the employees, which they (COA) declared as having no basis,” he said.
Although they continuously appeal the notices, Lacson said “we are always losing the appeal.”
So I don’t want to continue giving that burden to our employees, especially when they retire, the governor further said.
Last year, Capitol employees did not receive their 2022 PBB, for lack of guidelines. This year, they are again entitled for PBB after the provincial government was named among the recipients of the Seal of Good Local Governance by the Department of Interior and Local Government.
The PBB is equivalent to 60 percent of the salary of Capitol employees.
The SGLG is conferred by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to local government units that adhere to performance criteria on good financial housekeeping, disaster preparedness, social protection for the basic sector, business-friendliness and competitiveness, environmental management, and law and order and public safety.*
