{"id":83171,"date":"2004-08-08T07:08:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-08T07:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a0570190-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2004-08-08T07:08:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-08T07:08:00","slug":"a05701a3-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a05701a3-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"House to extend \u2018double dipping\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives aims to remove the two-year \u201cdouble dipping\u201d maximum deadline for certain professionals due to the current lack in the local workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Saipan Rep. Justo Quitugua said the law must be amended \u201cto open it up to more than two years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to extend it [for] more than two years because we still can\u2019t produce enough professionals such as teachers, nurses, doctors, etc.,\u201d he said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Quitugua said this is a pressing issue as some professionals would be leaving their key positions this year due to the two-year restriction.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it\u2019s not amended then they would have to leave but these individuals are still needed in the service,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>To prevent abuse, he said the Legislature would pass an enabling law \u201cto protect our young generations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Double dipping, according to some authorities, drains the government\u2019s retirement system funds as it allows the employer\u2014which is the government\u2014to pay the member or a retiree twice in terms of pension benefits and salaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives aims to remove the two-year \u201cdouble dipping\u201d maximum deadline for certain professionals due to the current lack in the local workforce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}