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Friday, February 10, 2006
Capitol expands outsourcing
CAPITOL’S outsourcing scheme will no longer be limited to health, janitorial and engineering workers. It will now cover clerical and other positions in all departments, except the legislative branch.
Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia yesterday said this is in line with her thrust to improve the quality of services from the Cebu Provincial Government.
That is aside from the savings that the Province will get out of the scheme, which two provinces are said to be interested in duplicating.
From June to December last year, the Provincial Accounting Office computed a total of P635,000 in savings from the outsourcing of district hospitals alone.
The amount would have been for the leave credits and additional benefits, like extra cash gifts and productivity bonuses, among others, had the Province filled the vacant medical positions through the regular process.
The savings computed did not yet include the salary step increment that regular workers receive every three years even if they are holding the same positions.
But beyond mathematics, Garcia said the “unquantifiable” benefit that the outsourcing will give is that manpower will no longer be subject to absences or leaves, because the agency will be asked to send substitutes.
The governor disclosed that some local government units in Cebu have been encouraged by the scheme, and are thinking of outsourcing their municipal health officers.
Aside from avoiding the inefficiency of some health officers, the local government units would no longer have to extend additional benefits in the Magna Carta approved by Congress, such as laundry allowance, hazard pay and others.
Two provinces, one in Mindanao and one in Eastern Visayas, have asked the Integrated Provincial Health Office about the scheme being used in the district hospitals in Cebu.
But Garcia, who has spoken informally with some governors about this, recognized that outsourcing may not be feasible in other provinces, especially the remote ones.
This is because there may not be enough doctors and nurses there, and manpower agencies that provide these services may not operate in remote areas. (JPM)
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