the City Council, during its regular session this week, enacted an ordinance authorizing Mayor Oscar Moreno to enter into a Memorandum of Agreement with the Social Security System for the provision of SSS Expanded Self-Employed Program Coverage of contractual and job order personnel of the city government.
This is in line with the Department of Interior and Local Government Circular No. 2014-83.
This, after the city government and the SSS agreed to give full support to the compulsory coverage of contractual and job order personnel of the city as self-employed members under the Social Security Law.
The SSS is mandated by law to provide social security protection to all self-employed persons and other qualified Filipino workers regardless of trade, business or occupation against the hazards of disability, sickness, maternity, old age, death and other contingencies.
The agreement provides that the city shall ensure the SSS coverage of interested personnel who are not covered under the GSIS Law, by requiring them to register as self-employed members of the SSS, automatically deduct the monthly contributions and remit the same to the SSS.
For its part, SSS shall conduct on-site registration of all qualified contractual and JO personnel as well as permanent personnel who opted to be voluntary members on a continuing basis and assign a representative who shall manage the city’s account, among others.
The pact was endorsed by the committee on laws and rules chaired by Councilor Ian Mark Nacaya. (clo)
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