President Rodrigo Duterte has extended the validity of the Bureau of Immigration’s guidelines to use its revenues for the salary increase of its personnel.
Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea signed Memorandum Order 39 “by the authority of the President” allowing express lane fees be used to augment the pay for BI employees.
There is a need for an interim measure to augment the salaries of BI employees in recognition of the “indispensability” of their roles, the order read.
The same memorandum was issued last year to supplement the salaries of BI personnel for that fiscal year.
The new order is effective until the last day of this year or until the passage of an immigration modernization law which upgrades the current compensation system of the bureau.
Medialdea signed the order on Sept. 27 but copies of the memorandum were given to Palace reporters Tuesday.