By TENG LAUBAN DATU
Cotabato City Bureau Chief
COTABATO City ― The Ministry of Basic Higher and Technical Education has recently ordered to fast-track the early release of their employees’ salaries for this month.
This is in consonance with Presidential Proclamation 922 that placed the entire country under a State of Public Health Emergency in the face of the contagion threat.
“We made this move to ensure that our employees can act accordingly and finance their necessities in this time of the pandemic,” Mohagher Iqbal, minister of education said.
The minister also noted that MBHTE is the largest ministry in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslin Mindanao that covers 60 percent of the region’s bureaucracy.
“It is our responsibility to aid them as much as our extent in this situation,” he added.
The early salary release will also cover the contract of service and casual employees of the ministry.
Aside from this, the ministry has also requested the salary differentials for their employees to the Department of Budget and Management through the Ministry of Finance, and Budget and Management.
“The focus of the Bangsamoro Government now is to keep our employees and constituents safe while helping them in the best manner that we can,” he said.
Iqbal urged the ministry’s employees to be wise and prudent in spending their money, especially in this time of health crisis.
