• GILBERT P. BAYORAN
Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson said on Tuesday (Nov. 19) that he wants guidelines from the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) for the release of the 2022 and 2023 Performance Based Bonus (PBB) to the provincial government employees.
“Until such time that the DBM will come up with guidelines then, we will just have to hold it,” Lacson said. “But we are ready to give it actually.”
In previous years, the provincial government received notices issued by the Commission on Audit (COA), with regards to the distribution of the PBB.
“There were rewards that were given to the employees, which they (COA) declared as having no basis,” he said.
Although the province is continuously making an appeal, 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 said.
Last year, the Capitol employees did not receive their PBB for 2022 for lack of guidelines.
This year, they are again entitled to a PBB after the provincial government was named as recipient of the Seal of Good Local Governance by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG).
The PBB is equivalent to 60 percent of the salary of the employees.
The SGLG is conferred by the 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. | GB
