Officials and employees of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System received 25 bonuses over and above their regular monthly salaries, showing that abuse and indecent practices were committed in government-owned and -controlled corporations (GOCCs).
"This indicates the kind of abuse that was being done, the kind of indecent practices that is being done in these agencies," Sen. Franklin Drilon, chair of the Senate finance committee, said.
This unfolded Tuesday at the Senate finance committee hearing on fat paychecks and bonuses of executives in GOCCs and government financial institutions.
The water utility’s administrator and officer-in-charge, Macra Cruz, told the committee that those were the anniversary bonus, mid-year bonus, year-end financial assistance, productivity bonus, Collective Negotiation Agreement incentive, GOCC incentive, performance enhancement bonus, corporate Christmas package, traditional Christmas bonus, calamity assistance, educational assistance, scholarship allowance, and family-week allowance.
There were other bonuses, said Cruz. The committee did not get the total amount such bonuses cost the MWSS. —VS,
