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Question hazard pay of job order doctor

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6 years 9 months ago #329 by Max
Max created the topic: hazard pay of job order doctor
Sir/madam: i just want to clarify whether or not a doctor hired by LGU as job order for six month contract can claim hazard pay? is she qualified under the magna carta for public health worker to claim such benefit? There is no contract the LGU and the doctor saying she can claim hazard pay.

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6 years 8 months ago #337 by Action Officer 9
Action Officer 9 replied the topic: hazard pay of job order doctor
Dear Max:

May we apprised you with the meaning of health worker in the context of Republic Act No. 7305, otherwise known as The Magna Carta of Public Health Workers, to wit:

"SEC. 3. Definition. - For purposes of this Act, "health workers" shall mean all persons who are engaged in health and health-related work, and all persons employed in all hospitals, sanitaria, health infirmaries, health centers, rural health units, barangay health stations, clinics and other health-related establishments owned and operated by the Government or its political subdivisions with original charters and shall include medical, allied health professional, administrative and support personnel employed regardless of their employment status."


As per definition, a health worker shall mean all persons who are engaged in health and health related wok and all persons employed in all hospitals etc. owned and operated by the Government or its political subdivisions with original charters, regardless of employment status.

We further invite your attention to Sections 20 and 21 of the same law, which read as follows:

"SEC. 20. Additional Compensation. - Notwithstanding Section 12 of Republic Act No. 6758, public workers shall received the following allowances: hazard allowance, subsistence allowance, longevity pay, laundry allowance and remote assignment allowance.


"SEC. 21. Hazard Allowance. - Public health worker in hospitals, sanitaria, rural health units, main centers, health infirmaries, barangay health stations, clinics and other health-related establishments located in difficult areas, strife-torn or embattled areas, distresses or isolated stations, prisons camps, mental hospitals, radiation-exposed clinics, laboratories or disease-infested areas or in areas declared under state of calamity or emergency for the duration thereof which expose them to great danger, contagion, radiation, volcanic activity/eruption occupational risks or perils to life as determined by the Secretary of Health or the Head of the unit with the approval of the Secretary of Health, shall be compensated hazard allowance equivalent to at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the monthly basic salary of health workers receiving salary grade 19 and below, and five percent (5%) for health workers with salary grade 20 and above."

Please be guided accordingly.

Thank you.

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