SENATE President Vicente Sotto 3rd on Friday assured the more than 1.5 million workers in the public sector that the last tranche of salary increase under the Salary Standardization Law will be implemented as scheduled in February.

Sotto made the assurance as he expressed optimism that the Senate and the House of Representatives would be able to hammer out a consolidated version of the 2019 budget bill this January.

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