DBM, PJA sign MoA to end Palace, SC budget dispute By Aytch S. de la Cruz 04/06/2011

DBM, PJA sign MoA to end Palace, SC budget dispute

By Aytch S. de la Cruz 04/06/2011

Budget disputes between Malacañang and the Supreme Court (SC) are expected to end today with the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) and the Philippine Judges Association (PJA) signing of a memorandum of agreement (MoA) to be witnessed by no less than President Aquino himself.

Malacañang’s Secretary Ramon Carandang announced at a news briefing yesterday that the said agreement “will allow the executive department to augment the salaries of workers in the judiciary” in light of the judges’ previous protests in the DBM’s slashes to the budget of the SC.

This developed in spite of Malacañang’s relentless insistence before that the judiciary can live with the P14.3-billion fund allocated by the government which was P8-billion short of the originally proposed budget that was intended to finance the increase in the salaries of those working for the judiciary..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20110406nat1.html