‘Respect rights of career service execs, workers’
All incoming elective and appointive officials have been advised to respect the constitutional rights to security of tenure of career service officials and employees with valid appointments.
The advisory is contained in Memorandum Circular No. 11, series of 2010 issued by the Civil Service Commission on June 15 to all heads of constitutional bodies, departments, bureaus and agencies of the national government, local government units, government-owned or controlled corporations, and local and state colleges and universities.
CSC cited the 1987 Consitution which provides that “no officer or employee of the civil service shall be removed or suspended except for cause provided by law.” The same law guarantees that State workers shall also be entitled of their right “…to security of tenure…”.
Under Executive Order 292 (Administrative Code of 1987), it is a declared policy of the State to “insure and promote the Constitutional mandate that appointments in the Civil Service shall be made only according to merit and fitness; that the Civil Service Commission, as the central personnel agency of the Government shall… adopt measures to promote morale, efficiency, integrity, responsiveness, and courtesy in the civil service….and institutionalize management climate conducive to public accountability…”
All incoming elective and appointive officials were also reminded to observe the prevailing Civil Service laws, rules and regulation in the exercise of personnel actions such as promotion, demotion, re-assignment, transfer, detail, secondment, job rotation, designation and others. (PIA)
