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CUC hazard pay raise OK’d
Janice A. Tenorio
The Commonwealth Utilities Corp. board of directors approved Friday the CUC management’s recommendation to raise the hazardous premium pay for certain CUC employees from the current 5% to 10%. The hazardous premium pay will take effect July 2, 2023.
This comes after all five directors votes “yes” to the pay raise at the board’s regular meeting.
CUC board chair Janice A. Tenorio said yesterday that the hazardous premium pay is important because of the calamities happening and as the employees have families to take care.
At the board meeting, acting CUC executive director Betty G. Terlaje said determinations were made a few years back about hazard pay and the board approved that.
Right now, Terlaje said, meter readers are only getting 5% hazard pay at three hours of work, while employees at the power plant are getting 5% but at eight hours.
She said raising the hazard pay from 5% to 10% would cost CUC $429,000 annually.
Terlaje said hazard pay would only apply when the employee works, and not for those who take a leave.
She said she was at the power plant last week and was in the generator room. “It was over 100 degrees in there. So the conditions that they work under are very different from the conditions working in fresh air outside,” she said.
