Angeles City Mayor Carmelo ‘Pogi’ Lazatin, Jr. has requested for an additional P21,000.00 bonus for a total of 1,260 employees at the City Hall for release in December 2024.

This number is broken down into 915 permanent, 329 casual, and 16 contractual employees.

On the other hand, 3,484 Contract of Service (COS) employees who are qualified for the P3,000 year-end gratuity will receive theirs on December 5, 2024.

This can be gleaned from Memorandum No. 1486, Series of 2024 issued on July 9,2024 by Mayor Carmelo “Pogi” Lazatin, Jr.

The P21,000 additional benefits for the 1,260 city government employees include the Productivity Enhancement Incentive worth P5,000 will be released on December 12; Collective Negotiation Agreement (CNA) bonus worth P10,000 on December 19; and the Service Recognition Incentive worth P6,000 which is to be released to the 1,260 workers on December 23.

This is apart from their tax-free year-end bonus, equivalent to one-month basic salary, which is set to be released on November 18.

The meeting at the Mayor’s Office Conference Room on July 10, 2024 was attended by Chief Adviser IC Calaguas, Executive Assistant IV Reina Manuel, City Budget Officer Jane Pablo Nakpil, City Accounting Officer-in-Charge Lilibeth Enriquez, Acting City Treasurer Arneil Escolangco, General Services Officer-in-Charge Evangeline Malonzo, and Flordeliza Santos, Association of Government Employees for a New Dynamic Angeles City (AGENDA) President.

Santos, on behalf of the city government employees, thanked the administration of Mayor Lazatin for taking care of the employees.

“Sa ngalan po ng mga empleyado ng city hall, kami po at nagpapasalamat sa walang humpay na biyaya mula kay Mayor Pogi,” Santos said.

“Maraming salamat po sa maagang pagseguro ng aming mga benepisyo, na hindi lamang para sa amin, kung di, sampu ng aming mga pamilya,” Santos bared.