CPA board member Ramon A. Tebuteb listens during a special board meeting.
COMMONWEALTH Ports Authority Board Chair Ramon A. Tebuteb has rescinded his predecessor’s memorandum allowing CPA exempt employees to “bank” their compensatory time.
On May 16, 2024, then-CPA Chair Jose C. Ayuyu approved the request of exempt employees to bank their compensatory time for six months. He said many managers and supervisors had to work “excessive hours” to handle urgent matters, including during odd hours of the day, on weekends, holidays, and austerity days.
Because sometimes the work happens toward the end of the week, and because their schedules cannot allow it, the exempt employees are unable to offset their hours within the same pay period, Ayuyu said.
He issued a memorandum to allow them to bank their compensatory time. The time worked over their regular 80 hours will be banked as compensatory time at a 1:1 ratio. The time incurred will be subject to approval by the CPA executive director.
However, the accrued time has no monetary value, meaning it cannot be paid out to the employee. It must be used; otherwise, the time will be forfeited.
In his Nov. 1, 2024, memorandum, Tebuteb, who was elected last month as the new board chair, said, “neither the former chair…nor the executive director had the authority to implement such a policy without approval by a majority of the board of directors.”
“Therefore, I hereby rescind the May 16, 2024 memorandum effective immediately,” Tebuteb said.
He said exempt employees with outstanding balances of compensatory time must exhaust their remaining balances as soon as reasonably possible, subject to approval by the executive director or his designee.
