Enhanced payroll at City Hall

DAVAO City Human Resource and Management Office is targeting to implement the enhanced payroll system by the end of June or July 2018, an official said.

HRMO head Erwin Alparaque in a media interview last Thursday said that paperless transaction for payroll and recording of attendance of employees is eyed to start by the end of June.

"Ongoing ang amoang pagprepara ana kay akong gi-ingon ang target sa date namo based sa amoang program design na gibuhat ug gi-aprubahan na, possible we will start before the end of June or July (Our preparation is ongoing because the target date based on our

program design, which was already approved, it's possible that we will start before the end of June or July)," he said.

Alparaque said that the hardware and software for the Information Technology (IT) component of the project is yet to be procured.

In a previous interview with Sun.Star Davao Alparaque said that the project tied up with the City Information and Technology Center, City Accountant’s Office, City Treasurer’s Office, City Budget Office will help reduce number of hours of processing payroll, since this new system, will not require daily time records and summary of monthly attendance.

A centralized system will be placed to record immediately the attendance of the employees, after they time-in and out using their biometrics.

He said that this system will benefit those job order and contract of service workers who were deployed on the field since they will no longer need to fill daily time records.

He said that the CITC will be the one to develop the system using the existing equipment so they will only need few additional equipment.