Civil Service Commissioner Aileen Lizada (PNA file photo)
MANILA – The Civil Service Commission (CSC) on Monday urged the government agencies to fill up first their vacant plantilla positions before hiring contract of service (COS) and job order (JO) workers.
CSC Commissioner Aileen Lizada made this call amid the government's rightsizing plan to save funds.
“There are more or less one hundred plus thousand vacant or unfilled positions in the government bureaucracy. Baka puwede hong unang tingnan iyon kasi walang tao, pero bakit hanggang ngayon ay unfilled pa po sila? (Maybe they can look at those positions first, but why until now these positions remain unfilled?),” Lizada said during a "Laging Handa" public briefing.
She recommended to abolish vacant positions if these will remain unfilled.
“Tingnan ho nila iyong (Look at the) one hundred plus thousand unfilled positions instead of hiring JOs and COS to be fair to them,” she added.
Lizada said the CSC supports any move by the national government that would ensure greater efficiency in public service, including the rightsizing plan.
Rightsizing, Lizada said, is designed to arrive at the appropriate structure and size of government agencies that will be responsive in the delivery of public goods and services.
“Sa (In the) Senate bill on rightsizing filed during the 18th congress, ‘rightsizing’ is a measure to rationalize the operations of offices from and among various government offices having related functions through streamlining of the position in any government bureaucracy aimed at enhancing the government’s institutional capacity to improve public service delivery,” she said.
Lizada assured that the CSC will thoroughly study any proposed legislation on rightsizing the bureaucracy and provide its inputs with the welfare of civil servants and the effective delivery of service to the public as its primordial considerations. (PNA)
