Around 215 Pasig City employees—majority of whom are street sweepers—will get paid roughly double their salaries starting next year, announced Mayor Vico Sotto through a Facebook post on Monday, December 27.
Their salaries will be increased to P12,000 per month from a range of P5,000 to P8,000 as long as they fulfill the required hours explained the mayor. Previously, their rates were based on work for five- to eight-month periods.
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A total of 215 employees from the City Environment and Natural Resources Office and Solid Waste Management Office now work full-time for 8 hours a day, Sotto said in a Facebook post. He noted that most of that number work as street sweepers and this raise would help "para mapunan ang kulang sa eskinita."
They are among 547 workers who will receive salary increases starting next year. Sotto has moved to regularize the city's employees throughout his term; on his 31st birthday in June 2020, he regularized 100 of the local government unit's employees.