After 36 years of government service, Marcelo del Pilar counted on his retirement pay to finance a badly needed heart bypass operation — and had been pleading for it. He died without seeing a centavo of it.
He served the government for 36 years until his retirement in 2011. But retired Cadiz City prosecutor Marcelo B. del Pilar has yet to receive his lump sum pension despite a letter of appeal to Justice Secretary Leila de Lima.
Some government officials and employees have such a bloated sense of self-importance, they look down upon citizens who come to their offices to transact business.
Beleaguered Coast Guard chief Vice Admiral Edmund Tan will retire on Dec. 16 while serving a 90-day preventive suspension ordered by the Sandiganbayan in connection with a 2009 graft case filed against him when he was still head of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) Visayas Area Command.
He may well be the Grinch who stole Christmas for a lot of government employees, but Budget Secretary Florencio Abad on Monday had to clarify that only government those workers who rendered exceptional service this year would be entitled to the performance-based bonus (PBB) announced by Malacañang on Friday.
A 70-year-old man was named model worker of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), besting over 40,000 other employees of the regional bureaucracy.
It will be mostly sunny from now on for the employees of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) as they will be receiving at last their suspended and overdue benefits.
President Benigno Aquino has promoted an old hand at the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) as a justice in the Sandiganbayan.
State employees and officials will be among those who will benefit from the biggest national budget ever proposed by a sitting president to Congress.
Government expenses for personal services, including salaries and benefits of those working for national agencies, increased by 7.6 percent to P212 billion in the first five months of 2012.
A public official was charged in court, not for failing to declare all his bank accounts in his statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN), but for naming a wrong spouse.
The payrolls for casual and contractual employees of the Manila City Council were wiped out—with a mere dab of correction fluid.
President Benigno Aquino III on Monday said he did not expect to receive a full pension credit when he steps down from office in 2016 because by then, he would have served in the government for only 18 years and six months.
