CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY — Contractual and job order personnel of the city government will now be covered by the Social Security System (SSS).
This after the City Council passed an ordinance providing for the compulsory enrollment of all non-regular staff for SSS coverage, and granting Mayor Oscar Moreno the authority to enter into an agreement with the SSS under the agency’s Expanded Self-Employed Program Coverage.
Currently, only regular workers of City Hall are covered with Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) pension and related benefits.
Councilor Ian Mark Nacaya, chair of the Committee on Laws and Rules that recommended the passage of the ordinance, said non-regular personnel will be entitled to benefits such as sickness, maternity, disability, retirement, death, funeral and salary loan.
Those who will be covered will have their monthly contributions deducted and remitted to SSS, Councilor Nacaya said. An on-site registration for all qualified City Hall personnel will be conducted after Moreno and the SSS management sign the memorandum of agreement.
The SSS coverage of non-regular government personnel has been mandated by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) as early as 2014.
Memorandum Circular 2014-83 issued by then Secretary Mar Roxas ordering all provincial governors, city and municipal mayors and barangay chairs to ensure that all their non-GSIS remitting workers be enrolled for SSS coverage. (PNA/Mark D. Fancisco)
