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Thursday, July 06, 2006
Mayor won’t renew papersof 3 budget office employees
Fed up with the dispute over the appointment of three Cebu City Hall employees, Mayor Tomas Osmeña decided not to reinstate three City Budget Office workers.
Osmeña confirmed yesterday that he will no longer renew the appointment of the three employees who were dismissed in late December last year.
He also clarified that the employees were never reinstated after the termination of their services.
“This has been a growing dispute so I have decided to just put them out…. I will never be sure if I made the right decision on this issue but I have to draw the line and end this because I have other things to worry about,” Osmeña told a news conference.
The mayor said, though, that the employees will be paid for the services they rendered from Jan.1 to June 30 this year.
Budget assistants Charina Semilla and Reynaldo Purca and driver Rodolfo Petallar were among the six casuals dismissed for collecting their pay for the first half of January even if their appointments were not yet released.
In a phone interview, Acting Human Resources Department Office Chief Ralph Sevilla said he already served them the notice of non-renewal, which was signed by the mayor.
But because the three employees continued to report for work after their dismissal and while they were under investigation, the mayor said he might have to reinstate them and terminate their services after.
The mayor signed an order last March but the employees were not actually reinstated because the results of the investigation were not out that time.
“So last week I told the mayor that I wrote another reinstatement order but he said not to bother with it because he does not want them to go back to work anymore. He said they created a lot of trouble already,” Sevilla said. (LCR)
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