GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES TO P-NOY: SPARE THE RANK AND FILE

Submitted by courage_phil on Sat, 06/19/2010 - 01:21.

Government  employees belonging to the militant groupCOURAGE today advise President Elect Benigno Aquino III to spare the rank andfile employees in the expected shuffle following the turnover of power comeJune 30.  

 

In a statement, COURAGE NationalPresident Ferdinand Gaite cited the case of the Official Palace cooks, foodhandlers, waiters, kitchen staff, and other rank and file employees ofMalacanang especially those who have been in service for several years now.

 

“These employees have survived thePresidency of Aquino, Ramos, Estrada and Arroyo. Ika nga, nag-trabaho lang sila, walang pulitika.  We trust that P-Noy would seriously considermaintaining them especially that Malacanang today revealed more than 50,000government employees positions are vacant and can be filled-up by the newadministration”.

 

Gaite is referring to the announcementmade by Presidential Management Staff Chief Elena Bautista-Horn that some 50,000positions are vacant following the implementation of Executive Order 366 andthe terms of office of contractual employees set to end on June 30. This isaside from the earlier announcement of 4,301 vacant positions for the cabinet,management and Executive levels in government.

 

Gaite stressed P-Noy should becautious not to court the ire of the government employees by displacing themwith those to be hired by the new administration.  “P-Noy can instead make use of the saidvacancy to regularize the thousands of casuals and contractual employees of thegovernment”.

 

COURAGE also pressed Aquino to consider theCareer Service Executives in filling-up the 4,301 positions. “P-Noy shouldstart right and set an example by upholding the merit and promotion system in thecivil service. There are a lot of eligible and qualified career executives andmiddle managers in the bureaucracy who often gets bypassed by politicalappointments. If the new administration’s search committee would genuinelysearch, then there won’t be a need for recycling Arroyo’s cabinet members andother former government officials who already had their time in publicservice”.