The increase in salaries of government workers will push through as scheduled this month despite the delay in the signing into law of the P4.1-trillion 2020 national budget. Acting Budget Secretary Wendel Avisado told the Inquirer that the implementation of the Salary Standardization Law (SSL) 5 would be effective January. The government had more than 1.2 million civilian workers as of mid-2019, according to Department of Budget and Management (DBM) data. “The executives were already covered by significant increases in the previous round of salary increases or SSL 4. The last tranche of salary increases under SSL 4 had been nonetheless delayed due to the late passage of the P3.7-trillion 2019 budget.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer January 01, 2020 21:22 UTC