Cast Away, Left hanging
@Nercie (231)
Naga City, Philippines
November 19, 2018 12:58am CST
I am a government employee of a certain agency here in the Philippines. As all Filipinos know that Uniformed personnel got that double salary increase. There are non-uniformed personnel in that agency, they are the one's making the reports, because most of the uniformed don't know that much in computer applications. As far as I know about the work of the Non-Uniformed Personnel (NUP), it's not that easy. Most of the time they render overtime but no overtime pay, they perform duty beyond the work hour which is 8:00 am to 5:00 pm (Monday-Friday). They don't even have any incidental pay or hazard pay when they are also working on a hazardous place especially those assigned in the far flung areas where attacks happened. No trainings in firing but during outreach program NUPs are tasked to be part of the outreach program which is outside the office. When they have this salary increase, NUPs were left behind, like cast away, more work to do but less compensation, while they enjoy their salary including their privileges, NUPs are left doing their compliance while they will just affix their signature. Behind every success of Uniformed Unit there is always the mind of the Non Uniformed behind it. How sad that those higher officials never thought that they have this employees that help them accomplish their job, willing to sacrifice and give all their best for the sake of the organization. I even once heard an NUP saying, "we are one in the organization, one in doing the job but what happened to the benefits and same interest? We NUPs were left, more work but not properly compensated."
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@rsa101 (38166)
• Philippines
19 Nov 18
I never realised that there are like that in government offices. While here in the private it is illegal to keep employees in that status after six months the employee can demand that they would be regularised employees. How come that in the government offices there are still these kinds of employees. They are the ones regulating the private firms but they themselves are the ones practising such inhumane labour practice.
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@rsa101 (38166)
• Philippines
20 Nov 18
@Nercie That is true. I think their reason behind that is they want to cost cut on everything that anyone who is willing to get the job will have it. In the meantime we in the private sector are not allowed to do it since they always say that we should be humane to our workers so we are bound to follow their regularisation to avoid being tagged as a bad employer. But the biggest of them all is the government who practices it wantonly and no one cares to change that practice.
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@Nercie (231)
• Naga City, Philippines
20 Nov 18
@rsa101 this is the reason why a lot of Filipinos are suffering because those higher officials practice their powers and make themselves richer and richer. They never know what is enough, they want more. They don't even care those low ranks or those assigned on far places, sacrificing for the sake of the organization that never care at all. They only want accomplishments for themselves and will pronounce it in the national TV that they made it, without even recognizing those who are behind that fu.....ng success. It's in the government where big crocodiles and dinosaurs lurk.
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@Nercie (231)
• Naga City, Philippines
20 Nov 18
yes, that's how rotten government is. There are a lot of employees in different agencies that are not given the right compensation and benefits instead, more work. If Pres. Duterte is only fair and just he will not only increase the uniformed personnel, instead, he will increase all government employees because PNP, AFP, BJMP and BFP are not the only agency that works for the government. Am I right?
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@stringer321 (5644)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
20 Nov 18
It sounds like a secondary company that sends employees to a workplace belonged to a main company.
In my country, this happens in many workplaces, including the electricity company: the security officers are from a company named S.I.H, and the electricity company security regulators are from the electricity company. They have much higher salary, they have their safe workplace, they gain their time (they stay in the job until retirement).
The cleaners are paid minimum per hour, they are belong to another company that sends them there, called Plutal...
Can you please explain the uniform and the not uniform workers ? What is really the difference between them ?
Do they have different knowledge ? Do they have different skills besides computer skills ?
Do they get paid by the same organization ? or maybe an out source company ?
@Nercie (231)
• Naga City, Philippines
21 Nov 18
Uniformed personnel are those from military/police/fire department and prison, while Non Uniformed personnel are civilian employees, most of personnel are entitled Statistician, Computer Operators and Radio Operators. Both have different training and skills. Both are being paid by the same organization.
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@stringer321 (5644)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
21 Nov 18
@Nercie In my country, the military pays the soldiers, the police pays the cops, and the fire department pays for the fire fighters. Is there any chance the personnel get paid a second salary from the place where he comes from (police/ fire department/ prison/ military )?
I hope the salary is still good even if not as good as the NUP salary.
The budget for the uniform personnel probably comes from somewhere else, the insurance and etc is different.
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@Nercie (231)
• Naga City, Philippines
26 Nov 18
@stringer321 the NUP association is working on the additional benefits for the civilian employee because we really deserve it. Our workplace is hazardous, we might not be always in the field but the station itself is considered as hazardous. It's the promise of the President of the Philippines during his campaign that he will double the salary of the uniformed personnel. Without his knowledge that the accomplishment of the Uniformed is not merely their own accomplishment, behind of it are NUPs.
@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
19 Nov 18
i'm not really familiar with how it's like in government agencies, the different categories of employees and the salaries. you've presented a totally different side from what we usually think or hear about.
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@Nercie (231)
• Naga City, Philippines
20 Nov 18
Yes, actually it's good to be a government employee because of tenure, lifetime investment as they say. But look how unfair the distribution of work and salary is. The teachers they needed increase because they're also offering their life to their students, but what did they say about teachers. Teachers are the one molding the students and creating professionals. So as the NUPs, they are the mind behind every activity that becomes successful, every program that PNP or AFP needs for their anti-criminality campaign. IT experts are NUPs, but did they include these civilian employees to also have a salary increase? No. That's how unfair they are.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
20 Nov 18
@Nercie i have a relative who is a teacher. she says she tutors the students after class. then during elections, they have to serve. she's just lucky she's based in a rich city, but i salute those outside the capital who go above and beyond, for their dedication and resourcefulness.
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