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Joc-Joc is the one must be transferred into jail, not the DENR IV employees to “hell”
Submitted by pubinfodepartment on Fri, 11/14/2008 - 04:05.
Manila—Employees of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources Region IV (DENR R4), together with the employees of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) and other militant groups, flocked the Roxas Blvd., anew to call upon Malacañang to act and stop the planned office transfer of the regional office, from the current office in Pedro Gil, Manila to Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro.
“It’s former Agriculture Undersecretary Jocelyn “Joc-Joc” Bolante who must be transferred, from his cozy room in St. Luke’s Medical Center, to jail; not us, poor employees, from Manila to “hell”; for it is like hell, to lose ones job amidst the world financial crisis,” Ms. Joyce Gavaran, officer of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau Employees Association Region IV (MGBEA IV), said in a statement.
She added that, it’ll cost the government P100 million just to move one office, from Manila to Calapan, less the expenses needed to transfer the employees there.
“But it’s like the move is a part of the rationalization scheme by this government as the distance and the cost of transfer will make the employees think of resigning, instead of relocating. That’s natural attrition,” she said.
Members of the BOC Employees Association (BOCEA), on the other hand, took their lunch off the street to join the protesters.
Mr. Romy Pagulayan, president of BOCEA said, instead of using the P100 million for transfer, why not use the money for hiring new workers and upgrade the department’s equipment and instruments to serve its clients and clienteles better.
He relates the DENR R4 experience to the BOC experience, wherein the Lateral Attrition Law is being used to shrink the number of employees inside the bureau. BOC is a part of the Department of Finance (DOF) and is assigned for the collection of import and export tariffs as well as other taxes from services rendered to the importers and exporters and issuance of permits.
“We have the LAL, they have the transfer. But these two are one in the sense that they are anti-employees and anti-Filipino for the more they shrink or close the agencies, the more they suffer the precious services to people,” Pagulayan said.
Meanwhile, Ms. Gavaran said that expect more protest rallies from their groups as long as the plan transfer is still there. (Press Release/November 14, 2008)
“It’s former Agriculture Undersecretary Jocelyn “Joc-Joc” Bolante who must be transferred, from his cozy room in St. Luke’s Medical Center, to jail; not us, poor employees, from Manila to “hell”; for it is like hell, to lose ones job amidst the world financial crisis,” Ms. Joyce Gavaran, officer of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau Employees Association Region IV (MGBEA IV), said in a statement.
She added that, it’ll cost the government P100 million just to move one office, from Manila to Calapan, less the expenses needed to transfer the employees there.
“But it’s like the move is a part of the rationalization scheme by this government as the distance and the cost of transfer will make the employees think of resigning, instead of relocating. That’s natural attrition,” she said.
Members of the BOC Employees Association (BOCEA), on the other hand, took their lunch off the street to join the protesters.
Mr. Romy Pagulayan, president of BOCEA said, instead of using the P100 million for transfer, why not use the money for hiring new workers and upgrade the department’s equipment and instruments to serve its clients and clienteles better.
He relates the DENR R4 experience to the BOC experience, wherein the Lateral Attrition Law is being used to shrink the number of employees inside the bureau. BOC is a part of the Department of Finance (DOF) and is assigned for the collection of import and export tariffs as well as other taxes from services rendered to the importers and exporters and issuance of permits.
“We have the LAL, they have the transfer. But these two are one in the sense that they are anti-employees and anti-Filipino for the more they shrink or close the agencies, the more they suffer the precious services to people,” Pagulayan said.
Meanwhile, Ms. Gavaran said that expect more protest rallies from their groups as long as the plan transfer is still there. (Press Release/November 14, 2008)