THOUSANDS of science employees in the government will not feel effects of increase in salary once a bill on standardization of salary of government employees is passed.

In a survey done by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), 4,850 or 88.42 percent of the 5,485 science and technology workforce will not rejoice over passage of the proposal, which only threatens to repeal Republic Act (RA) 8439 or the Magna Carta benefits for science and technology workers.

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