PRRD approves grant of active hazard pay, special risk allowance to COVID-19 health frontliners
By Alexa Janine M. Tinsay
Presidential Spokesperson Secretary Roque during the November 17 press
briefing said Administrative Order No. 35 (AO 35) authorizes the grant of
‘Active Hazard Duty Pay (AHDP) to Human Resources for Health (HRH) serving in the
frontlines during the state of National Emergency’.
The AHDP can reach up to Php 3,000 per month, pro-rated based on the number of
days the HRH physically reports for work in a month.
Recipients of AHDP are medical, allied medical, and other personnel in the
public sector including civilian employees whether regular, contractual or
casual positions, whether full or part-time and contract-of service or
job order personnel together with duly accredited and registered barangay
health workers.
These health frontliners should be physically reporting for work at their
assigned work stations on the prescribed official working hours.
However, those engaged without employer-employee relationship and funded from
non personal services budgets are excluded from the AHDP.
In addition, the President also signed Administrative Order No. 36 providing
‘Special Risk Allowance (SRA) to Private and Public Health Workers Directly
Catering to or in Contact with COVID-19 Patients During the State of National
Emergency’.
This SRA benefit can reach up to Php 5000 per month, likewise pro-rated based
on the number of days the recipient physically reported for work.
This approved benefit is for public and private health workers [medical, allied
medical, and other personnel] who directly provided treatment and support care
to COVID-19 patients in hospitals, laboratories, or medical quarantine
facilities. For the private health workers, they must be assigned in the
designated COVID-19 units of hospitals, laboratories, or medical and quarantine
facilities as certified by the DOH.
Similar to AO 35, recipients also include civilian employees,
contract-of-service, and job order personnel and should also be physically
reporting for work in designated COVID-19 units as certified by the Department
of Health (DOH) on prescribed official working hours.
The DBM in coordination with the DOH shall issue the guidelines in the
implementation of said orders. (AJMT/PIA-IDPD)
