Senator Joel Villanueva said essential personnel such as street sweepers and garbage collectors should also be entitled to hazard pay given the risks they face especially during this time of COVID-19 pandemic.
Villanueva said it is high-time the government considers the plight of these sanitation workers as they are one of the “most vulnerable with low salaries and very little, if at all, protection afforded to them, and yet they continued to work to keep us safe at our homes.”
“We will look into this issue as we are set to hear these measures that intend to grant hazard pay for workers in critical industries. We will tackle all the finer points of the bill in the committee hearing so we can strike a balance among stakeholders,” Villanueva said, referring to Senate Bill No. 1453.
Villanueva likewise filed a counterpart bill, SBN 1455, to cover government workers, which has been referred to the Senate civil service committee. The bill includes workers in the medical and allied health services, banks, morgues, groceries and public markets, pharmacies, restaurants, logistics, food and medical manufacturing, telecommunications, mass media, electricity generation, transmission and distribution, gasoline stations, oil companies, water distribution, sanitation, capital markets, hotels, public transport, civil aviation, and other establishments the government may deem necessary to operate at the time of the emergency.
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