TRANCHE 4 PAY SCALE

RATIONALE FOR REQUESTING TRANCHE 4 PAY SCALE:

1. The petition posted hereunder is intended to request for the approval of the last tranche of LBP pay scale to complete the 4 tranches of salary increase under Senate & HR Joint Reso. No. 4 approved on July 9, 2009.

2. GCG submitted the CPCS to Malacanang last quarter of 2013 for approval. Until now, CPCS remained pending despite several actions of KAMAGGFI to demand immediate approval like meetings with GCG and rally at Malacanang.

3. There were pronouncements from Pres Noy and Sec. Abad as to no salary increase for government workers until 2015. While it may be true that such press releases are only applicable to national agencies, Landbankers cannot help but feel restless and uncertain whether to remain optimistic that we are exempted and just wait for the blessing or take the risk of being heard that we were left out.

4. We are not sure if Pres Noy would indeed approve the CPCS considering that other GOCCs and GFIs have fully implemented their increases simultaneous with SSL3. While LandBank had an interim pay plan as approved on July 4, 2011.

5. This petition is one way for us to express our common sentiments to inform Pres Noy, DOF, DBM that LBP's pay plan remained interim.

6. So while we are supporting KAMAGGFI on the CPCS, we cannot remain complacent and wait for something to happen but instead we should do something while we can to alleviate our plight. It is time for us to unite and call for the approval and implementation of our pay plan 4th tranche and eventually solve the "untog" issue. So even if it would take until 2016 for PNoy to approve the CPCS for as long as our 4th tranche is approved so be it.

Below is the draft I prepared for our petition, this is still subject to change.  So if you have suggestions for improvement, please be generous enough to share:

PETITION FOR THE APPROVAL OF LANBANK SALARY SCALE TRANCHE 4

   We, Landbankers, hereby express our unified appeal for the approval and implementation of our 4th tranche Salary Increase.  

   

   

   LandBank’s pay plan was not fully implemented as it was only up to the 3rd tranche.  Consequently, majority of the employees no longer receive step increment for having reached the maximum step on the pay scale.  There is no salary increment which would serve as buffer to cushion the impact of erosion in the purchasing power of our salary.  

   Amidst the rising prices with no salary increases, we are left helpless to bear the brunt of inflation and increases in prices of basic commodities.   Our net pay is not enough to feed our families and sought refuge from lenders to be able to fill in the gaps.

   Other government workers in the national agencies and GOCCs/GFIs have fully implemented their salary increases on or even before June 1, 2012 being the 4th tranche implementation of SSL 3 per Executive Order No. 76 dated April 30, 2012.  While we patiently waited since 2012 for the approval of the CPCS/compensation study recommended by the GCG as provided for under R.A. 10149.  The CPCS would supposedly complete the 4th tranche of salary increase for LandBank.  

   Unfortunately, the wait was in vain because until now the CPCS is left unacted and even aggravated by news in the broadsheets that no salary increases for government workers until 2015 .  

   We are now demanding for the implementation of our increase in pay scale 4th tranche as provided by law under Senate and House of Representatives Joint Resolution No. 4 which prescribed a four (4) equal yearly tranches starting July 1, 2009, to wit:

• (13) Implementation—For national government employees, the Salary Schedule in item (4)(b) and the Base Pay Schedule in item (Cool shall be implemented in four (4) equal yearly tranches but in no case beyond four (4) years: Provided, That the initial implementation shall take effect July 1, 2009.
  
  For GOCCs/GFIs and LGUs, the implementation period shall be at least four (4) years depending on their financial capabilities: Provided, further, That the initial implementation for GOCCs/GFIs shall take effect July 1, 2009 and in the case of LGUs, January 1, 2010.
  

We are invoking one of the Governing Principles under Section 9 of the RA 10149 the GOCC Governance Act of 2011, as follows:

• (a) All GOCC personnel  shall be paid just and equitable wages in accordance with the principle of equal pay for work of equal value. Differences in pay shall be based on verifiable compensation and position classification-factors in due regard to the financial capability of the GOCC;
  

     Land Bank of the Philippines has maintained its position as top remitter in terms of dividend remittance to the government since the GOCC Dividends Day started.  Remittance in 2012 was P5B, in 2013 was P6.241 and P6.298 in 2014.  

   The strong financial performance of the bank reflects the dedication and hard work of the LandBankers.  We are only asking a fair and reasonable pay due to us under the principle of social justice and equal pay for work of equal value through the approval of the last tranche of our pay scale.

Paano na po iyong mga untog.Wala silang matatanggap.

Sir kaya nga natin hingin ang 4th tranche para solution sa untog may adjustment po sa salary lahat. Ang statement po na ito sa petition ay para sa "untog" reached the maximum step on the pay scale

"LandBank’s pay plan was not fully implemented as it was only up to the 3rd tranche. Consequently, majority of the employees no longer receive step increment for having reached the maximum step on the pay scale. There is no salary increment which would serve as buffer to cushion the impact of erosion in the purchasing power of our salary."

Of course I understand that statement.What I'm asking is, do we still have space for salary increase if tranche 4 is implemented considering that we a have already  reached  our maximum pay under that pay grade?

Yes Sir pare pareho po tayo na nasa "untog" tranche 4 is a new pay scale it will adjust our present pay scale

Okey.Thank you ma'am.

APPROVE NA NATIN ANG PROPOSED PETITION OF lbpeavisayas. Let us print this in a broadsheet of national circulation

Push na natin, marami naman pera ang LBPEA, kahit wala tayong kopya ng financial statement ng LBPEA alam natin marami itong pera at puede sigurong magamit sa purpose na ito.

capariz wrote:

Push na natin, marami naman pera ang LBPEA, kahit wala tayong kopya ng financial statement ng LBPEA alam natin marami itong pera at puede sigurong magamit sa purpose na ito.

Capariz,I just would like to inform you that your national director is incharged with the preparation of LBPEA FS and I think it is almost 90% finished. I will post it here as soon as she will have the final FS.

Let us finish first the signing of the petition then the NEB will have to decide whether it will be published in newspapers.

Thanks Mam Sonia, God Bless

Madam Son, can we indicate the GOCCs/GFIs that already implemented the 4th tranche on their payscale so that if ever PNoy will inquire, there is a comparison that said agency indeed implemented said tranche...thank you!!!

uragon-C215 wrote:

Madam Son, can we indicate the GOCCs/GFIs that already implemented the 4th tranche on their payscale so that if ever PNoy will inquire, there is a comparison that said agency indeed implemented said tranche...thank you!!!

Welcome back Uragon! Regarding your suggestion to indicate GOCCs/GFIs, its a good suggestion but we dont have the data on their payplan.  But I would like to mention and refer you to our approved IPP wherein we were compared with SSL3 implementation on No. 7 justification page 2 of the memo, it states and I quote:

• "7. A comparison of LBP's existing pay plan with SSL3(Annex C) hightlights the need for an adjustment in the salary rate of LBP rank-and-file employees and officers as the implementation of SSL 3 has placed existing salaries of some rank-and-file employees and officers lower in the minimum salary rates for corresponding SSL positions.  The end-result of the propose pay plan increase for LBP addresses this concern."
  

With the implementation of Tranche 4 SSL3 on June 1, 2012, we were left behind.

On the footnote found below Pnoy's signature, the percentage of increase on SSL 3 was shown:
June 1, 2009  - 15%
June 1, 2010  - 13%
June 1, 2011  - 11%
                           -----
       Total              39%
                           ====

Ang di pa rin malinaw Madam Sonia ay yung existing pay plan natin...di tugma ang minimum at maximum amounts ng salaries natin sa nakasaad sa matrix na nakaatach sa memo ni Executice Secretary kay Pnoy...In other words, malabo kasi wala tayong official na data tungkol po dyan sa IPP natin...Di ba tayo talaga makakuha?

BLITZ wrote:

Ang di pa rin malinaw Madam Sonia ay yung existing pay plan natin...di tugma ang minimum at maximum amounts ng salaries natin sa nakasaad sa matrix na nakaatach sa memo ni Executice Secretary kay Pnoy...In other words, malabo kasi wala tayong official na data tungkol po dyan sa IPP natin...Di ba tayo talaga makakuha?

Yes Sir ayaw po magbigay ng management eventhough may memo na si Pres Allan noon pa strictly confidential daw po

BLITZ wrote:

Pag pala sinabi ng management na confidential ang pay scale natin, period na tayo? I mean, naniwala na kaagad kahit wala man lang icite na legal ground kung bat sinabing comfidential?  Suggestion lang po, baka nararapar na y elevate ito sa Civil Service Commission or sa GCG para malaman natin kung talaga ngang confidential po ito at di na lang tatalima! Ika nga, “maganda ang samahan kung walang itinatago”

Sir Blitz playing safe din usually sumagot ang Civil Service as expected its a management prerogative pareho ng naelevate sa kanila na issue on admonition wala din sila nagawa. May coercive power kaya ang GCG sa GFI? Wala naman nakasaad sa RA 10149.

So ganito na lang ba tayo?We will just take management's statement ,hook,line and sinker?

bob587 wrote:

So ganito na lang ba tayo?We will just take management's statement ,hook,line and sinker?

So what do you suggest Sir?

[size=32]The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.[/size]
Tom Clancy

Ideally maganda talaga ang suggestions mo Sir Blitz  kung ang mga officers na iniluklok natin sa LBPEA  ay yong walang career na iniingatan at laban lg ang gagawin sa management na willing isakripisyo ang career at pamilya nila.  

LBPEA is doing diplomatic means to request our benefits from management. Marami naman tayo nahingi na pinagbigyan nila although minsan yg iba delayed. 

Nevertheless, kung sama sama at magtutulungan  ang lbpea at buong empleyado pareho ng ginawa natin noon mas malakas ang ating bargaining power sa management and miracles happen.

Let us put things in the proper perspective Madam Sonia, yung mga "nahingi natin na pinagbigyan nila" ay LEGALLY DUE US ... ang tama na rgumento ay yung delayed pagkabigay at kung minsan saka lang ibigay pag may demand, in short, walang kusa!

Ngayon, base sa statement po nyo, it appears na kaya di na inaassert yung rights ng union ay dahil "may career na iniingatan". Kung ito po ang dahilan, di po masama na ipaglaban ang nararapat, ang masama po ay pag mali ang ipinaglalaban...Kasi kung di pala kayang panindigan at ipaglaban ang karapatan ng union, HINDI NA LANG SILA TUMAKBO in the first place kasi dapat alam nila ang bigat ng obligasyon na kanila nakasalalay...Salamat po!

Sana Sir Blitz tumakbo po kayo na Presidente ikaw ang taong kailangan ng LBPEA kasi matapang ka eh.

   Sa ilang taon ko sa LBPEA, naipaaabot naman ang karapatan ng mga empleyado sa mahinahon na paraan walang legal action kung baga. Totoo ginawa natin ang protesta sa IPP pero prayer rally yon mahinahon pa rin at nakamit naman natin ang ating hiningi.  

   Even sa korte nga may tinatawag na amicable settlement hindi na paabutin pa sa mahabang proceso.  Ito ang ginagawa namin idinadaan namin sa mahinahon na paraan ang ating mga hinaing sa management.  Lumalaban po kami sa tamang paraan ang gusto po ninyo kasi ay iassert namin ang aming karapatan sa EO 180 like ULP due to violation ng CNA.  Alam natin na legal action ang kailangan dito.  Hindi po natin kailangan ang marahas na paraan kasi po realistically the people in LBPEA are here in LandBank because we have to feed our families.  We have employees' rights to protect on the one side but we also have our source of living on the other side.  According nga sa Civil Service na speaker during the LBPEA convention primary po ang trabaho natin secondary lang po ang assosasyon.

Kami po na LBPEA Officers ninyo ay tumakbo kasi alam namin na may maitutulong, may magagawa,  at may talento kami na  maibigay para sa ikabubuti ng ating asosasyon.  Ngunit hindi po ibig sabihin na isasakripisyo namin lahat kasi nga may pamilya kami na pinapakain at may mga anak kami na pinapaaral.  

Ang gusto ko lang ipaabot na kami po ay nandito para maging boses ninyo sa management.  Para humingi ng benepisyo natin sa tinatawag na "win win solution" makukuha natin ang gusto natin sa paraan na walang may maisakripisyo lahat ay matiwasay.

Bakit ma'am Sonia,pinabayaan ba natin ang ating trabaho? Hindi naman siguro. At hindi naman siguro karahasan ang pag-assert ng ating rights na ayon sa batas.Puwede naman sigurong paminsan minsan ay e-remind natin ang management through our counsel na may mga nilabag na silang mga kasunduan at mga nakalimutang promises.No Madam,the people in LBPEA are not here to feed their families.Rather, they are in LBPEA to protect and fight for our rights.

 bob587 quote

        No Madam,the people in LBPEA are not here to feed their families.Rather, they are in LBPEA to protect and fight for our rights.


        Sabi nga, secondary lang yang association.... tumagal tayo sa LBP dahil sa pagmamahal natin sa ating pamilya. By all chances you can have my vote ...Run, with out having to feed your family. Ill
campaign for you.                 


   

Nakita na ninyo guidelines ng SFAL? Ang dami daming bawas may matira pa kaya? sana may ibigay din sa atin na finanacial assistance...

bob587 wrote:

Bakit ma'am Sonia,pinabayaan ba natin ang ating trabaho? Hindi naman siguro. At hindi naman siguro karahasan ang pag-assert ng ating rights na ayon sa batas.Puwede naman sigurong paminsan minsan ay e-remind natin ang management through our counsel na may mga nilabag na silang mga kasunduan at mga nakalimutang promises.No Madam,the people in LBPEA are not here to feed their families.Rather, they are in LBPEA to protect and fight for our rights.

Sir Bob, I will resign sa LBPEA ibibigay ko sayo ang pwesto ko kasi baka ikaw ang makakagawa sa mga magaganda mong suggestions.   Kasi sa palagay ko hindi pa sapat sayo ang mga ginagawa namin sa LBPEA at siguro mas marami kang magagawa kaysa sa akin.

Bakit 9308 pag officer ka pala ng LBPEA hindi mo na mapakain pamilya mo.May iba nga na gustong mag serve diyan pero kayo ang nanalo.Kayo nga ang ibinoto at inaasahan tapos sasabihin niyong ibigay niyo position niyo sa amin.May kasabihan nga na " If you can't stand the heat, then get out of the kitchen".Sabagay in fairness naman sa inyo mahirap ring magtrabaho para sa LBPEA kong iyong karamihan sa miyembro natin ni hindi makasabit ng black arm bands.Kumbaga,naghihintay lang ng hulog ng langit.

Cesar wrote:

Kailan po ba nag-due yong Tranche 4 Pay Scale? May batas ba na nagre-repeal sa Senate & HR Joint Reso. No. 4 dated July 9, 2009. Kung wala, i dapat hingin natin, at bakit ngayon lang natin naisip yan?               suggestion lang po: Black w/ Red arm band Friday!!!

Ang SSL 3 Tranche 4 took effect last June 1, 2012 the year after po ng IPP natin kasi 4 successive years po yong salary increases under JR No. 4 from 2009 to 2012. Hindi po na repeal ang batas na ito.  Noon pa po alam na natin na  interim lang yong sa atin at may kulang pa na isa kaso lang po hindi hiningi kasi we were expecting na ma approve kaagad yong CPCS na designed ng GCG ito po sana ang 4th tranche natin.  Ang problema naman hanggang ngayon hindi pa na approve ni PNoy at may naglabasan sa newspapers na statements ni PNoy at ni Sec. Abad na "no salary increases for government workers" kaya po tayo nagpalabas ng petition para ipaalam kay PNoy na kulang po yong salary increase natin kasi naka interim lang po tayo.

Yong black and red parang sa supreme court po kasi pwede siguro black with green kasi landbank tayo. Nakakalungkot lang na konti ang sumusuporta sa panawagan na mag black armbands siguro marami na pera mga kasamahan natin at ayaw na ng salary increase.

Ma'm Sonia,

Umaasa po ako na ma approve din ang Tranche 4. Sa katunayan nga inapprove na ng GCG ang per diems ni Mrs. Pico. Eto po ang balita sa Cocktails ni Victor C. Agustin July 11, 2014:

Land Bank explains Pico's tripled salary


There is a simple explanation as to why the 2013 compensation of Land Bank president Gilda Pico had "tripled" in just two years.

"Land Bank did not pay Ms. Pico's per diems in 2011 and 2012 (as member/vice chairman of the Land Bank board) pending the clearance of the Governance Commission for GOCCs for the release of the said benefit," the bank said in a statement in reaction to a July 4 report in this column.


"It was only after it received the GCG approval in May 2013 that Land Bank released Ms. Pico's 2011 and 2012 per diems in the amount of P2.976 million."


Consequently, the 2013 booking swelled Pico's compensation for the year to P10.29 million, instead of her usual annual salary of P7.24 million, the bank added.


The Commission on Audit also reported Pico's 2010 salary as only P790,000, because COA had also failed to timely include her basic salary then of P2.22 million, as well as her 13th and 14th month pay and allowances.

Regarding arm band, siguro check naman ng mga NEB yong mga nasasakupan na Region if the Regional Governors ay nacontact naman lahat ng mga unit representative at nabigyan ng instruction total may load allowance naman sila. Kami kung di lang dahil sa forum na ito di kami updated sa mga nangyayari. kahit na yong LBPEA Petition la pa nga kami hanggang ngayon.