(Pinangangambahan sa ‘rightsizing’)MALAWAKANG LAYOFFS

“Instead of answering the just demand of government employees and workers for salary increase and regularization, government through rightsizing will only effect massive layoffs, retrenchment, and displacement, and worsen contractualization,” ayon kay ACT Teachers Party-list Representative France Castro.

“The Department of Budget and Management already knows that this proposal will affect 2 million government employees. The agency wants to save P14 billion in exchange for the jobs and security of tenure of 2 million Filipinos that would be affected by this proposal,” dagdag pa ng kongresista.

Kinontra rin ni Castro ang pahayag na hindi makaaapekto ang ‘rightsizing’ sa mga guro at health care workers.

Aniya, sa planong rightsizing, mapipilitan ang mga guro na pasanin ang mga gawain ng education support personnel.

“Through this proposal, government agencies will hire more and more personnel on contracts of service and job orders who will not be considered as government employees and will not be paid the salaries and job security as such,” sabi pa ni Castro.

Ang mga ahensiya ng pamahalaan na may pinakamaraming COS at JOs ay kinabibilangan ng Department of Public Works and Highways, Department of Health, Department of Education, Department of Environment and Natural Resources at Department of Social Welfare and Development.