Conditions on the Grant of SRI 2020 for Gov't Employees

Under Section 2 of the recently signed Administrative Order No. 37 of President Duterte are the conditions on the Grant of the Service Recognition Incentive (SRI) for Fiscal Year 2020.

READ: Administrative Order 37 (Authorizing The Grant Of Service Recognition Incentive (SRI) To Government Employees For Fiscal Year FY 2020)

SECTION 2. Conditions on the grant of the SRI. The Grant of the SRI shall be subject to the following conditions:

a. The civilian personnel are occupying, contractual or casual positions;

b. The personnel are still in the government service as of 30 November 2020;

c. Ther personnel have rendered at least a total or an aggregate of four (4) months of satisfactory service as of 30 November 2020, inclusive of services rendered under any of the alternative work arrangements prescribed by the Civil Service Commission;

d. Those who have rendered less than a total or an aggregate of four (4) months of satisfactory service as of 30 November 2020 shall be entitled to a pro-rated share of the SRI, as follows:

Length of Service	Percentage of the Incentive
3 months but less than 4 months	40%
2 months but less than 3 months	30%
1 month but less than 2 months	20%
Less than 1 month	10%

and

e. The employees have not received any additional year-end benefit in FY 2020 over and above the benefit authorized under Republic Act (RA) No. 6686, as amended by RA 8441.

SECTION 3. Exclusion from the Grant of the SRI. Those engaged without employer-employee relationship and whose compensations are funded from non-Personnel Services (PS) appropriations/budgets are excluded from the grant of the SRI, such as:

a. Consultants and experts engaged for a limited period to perform specific activities or services with expected outputs;

b. Laborers engaged through job contracts (pakyaw) and those paid on a piecework basis;

c. Student workers and apprentices; and

d. Individuals and groups of people whose services are engaged through job orders, contracts of service, or others similarly situated.