Governor Exequiel B. Javier is studying the possibility of filing a case against former Governor Salvacion Perez in order to collect the amount of P15.55 million in Productivity Pay that the latter had paid the employees in 2009, but which was disallowed by the Commission on Audit (COA).
Gov. Javier said that his predecessor assumed full responsibility for the payment of the said Productivity Pay to the employees in her letter to former Vice Governor Rhodora Cadiao and the members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP), asking them to pass a resolution granting her authority to pay the Productivity Pay.
"That’s P15.55 million that was illegally paid the employees and, for a fact, the employees did not ask for it. It was former Gov. Perez who thought of giving the employees Productivity Pay and she had that ‘comfort letter’ to the SP taking full responsibility," Javier said.
Each employee then received P10,000 less withholding tax that former Gov. Perez called as Extra Christmas Bonus.
To recall, the COA issued a Notice of Disallowance (ND NO.: 2010-00049-101(09) dated September 27, 2010 on the payment of Productivity Enhancement Incentive (PEI) in 2009 in the amount of P15,552,265.
The COA disallowed the payment made last December 21, 2009 of the PEI to the total of 1,488 regular and casual employees because the Province of Antique has already exceeded its Personnel Services (PS) limitation by P135,628,062.32 (net of disallowed PS items) in its FY 2009 Annual Budget as per review letter dated June 15, 2009 by the DBM Regional Office VI, Iloilo City. (PNA) /MP
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