READY
TO PAY --- BARMM Executive Secretary Abdulraof Macacua,
currently Environment Secretary and Member of Bangsamoro Parliament, announced
last December 6 that employees of the defunct Autonomous Region in Muslim
Mindanao affected by the phase-out
program will start getting compensation this week after the recent release of
some P500-million in gratuity funds for the purpose by the national government.
An estimated 6,000 ARMM employees sill get their separation pay as the BARMM
rolls out its gradual phase-out plan for the region’s transition period. (PHOTO
COURTESY OF BPI-BARMM / MINDANAO EXPOSE’) CLICK PHOTO ABOVE TO READ MORE.....
COTABATO CITY --- Public servants in
the Bangsamoro government to be separated from government service as part of
the transition period phase-out program will soon get their separation pay.
Executive
Secretary Abdulraof Macacua of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim
Mindanao (BARMM) has announced that national government has released about
P500-million in gratuity funds for the purpose.
The
fund will finance the separation pay of employees of the defunct Autonomous
Region in Muslim Mindanao.
Macacua,
also BARMM Environment secretary, said BARMM officials and the employees are
thankful to President Rodrigo R. Duterte and Budget Secretary Wendel Avisado
for the prompt releases of the service separation funds.
The
BARMM phase-out program affects more than 6,000 employees after they deemed to
have lost their positions under the BARMM government.
On
October 31, the first batch of employees ceased working while another batch
also deemed to have retired on November 30.
The
last batch of the ARMM employees to end government service will have until December
31, 2019. (EDWIN FERNANDEZ, PNA – COTABATO / MINDANAO EXPOSE’)
