REGULAR government employees are set to receive P20,000 while contractual government employees will get P5,000 as recognition incentive and gratuity for 2023, Malacañang said yesterday.
Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin, in Administrative Order No. 12 signed on December 7, said President Marcos Jr. has authorized the grant of the one-time Service Recognition Incentive (SRI) of P20,000 to government employees, and in AO No. 13, the grant of a one-time gratuity pay of up to P5,000 each for government employees under a contract of service or job order as of December 15.
The release of grants will start on December 15.
The two administrative orders said the government recognizes all government employees for their collective and invaluable contribution to the government’s continuing efforts in pursuing the objectives, commitments, targets and deliverables under the Philippine Development Plan 2023-2028 and the President’s eight-point Socioeconomic Agenda.
Under AO 12, those qualified for the SRI are civilian personnel in national government agencies including those in state universities and colleges (SUCs) and government-owned or controlled corporations (GOCCs), occupying regular, contractual or casual positions.
Also receiving the P20,000 SRI are military personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), uniformed personnel of the Philippine National Police (PNP), Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), and Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), Bureau of Corrections (BuCor), the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), and the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
Also qualified for the incentive are civilian personnel occupying regular, contractual or casual positions, provided they are still in government service as of Nov. 30, 2023 and have rendered at least four months of satisfactory service.
The SRI would also be granted to those employed and who have rendered satisfactory service for three months but less than four months (40 percent), two months and less than three months (30 percent), one month or less (20 percent), less than one month (10 percent).
Excluded from the SRI grant are consultants and experts engaged for a limited period to perform specific activities or services with expected outputs; laborers engaged through job contracts (“pakyaw”) and those paid on piecework basis; student workers and apprentices; and individuals and groups of people whose services are engaged through job orders, contracts of service or others similarly situated.
The SRI will be sourced from the personnel services of each agency’s budget. In case of insufficient amount, it shall be charged against the Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses allotment of the concerned government agency.
AO No. 13, meanwhile, provides a one-time gratuity pay of not more than P5,000 each for contract of service (COS) and job order (JO) government employees who have rendered at least four months of actual satisfactory performance of service, as stipulated in their respective contracts as of December 15, and whose contracts are still effective as of the same date.
This includes COS and JO personnel in national government agencies, state universities and colleges, and government-owned or -controlled corporations and local water districts.
COS and JO workers who rendered satisfactory service for three months but less than four months shall receive 40 percent of the SRI; 30 percent for those who rendered services for two months and less than three months; 20 percent for those who worked for one month or less and 10 percent for those who rendered service for less than a month (10 percent).
