THE DEPARTMENT of Budget and Management (DBM) will eliminate government jobs that have remained chronically unfilled and warned agencies to fill any such vacancies by year’s end.
Budget Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno said on Wednesday that the job vacancies across the entire government amount to 264,000 positions, and called on the public to take up more jobs in public service.
“The DBM will be issuing a circular directing all agencies to fill all authorized positions available to them or risk abolition of positions left unfilled after five years from creation,” Mr. Diokno said in a media briefing yesterday.
He said that the circular will come “soon,” and an evaluation of which jobs will survive will happen “by the end of September.” Mr. Diokno also noted that the order to abolish positions left unfilled in the last five years will come “before the end of the year.”
As of July 30, Mr. Diokno said that about 125,000, or 47.4% of the vacancies are teaching-related positions.
Mr. Diokno noted that public school teachers’ salaries are about double that of their private sector counterparts.
There are also about 90,000 jobs in the general civil service, about 34,000 in the uniformed services, and 14,000 in medical and allied health care jobs.
“We cannot deliver our programs and services as efficiently and effectively as possible without our civil servants there doing the work. This vacuum is unacceptable,” Mr. Diokno said.
“We want qualified individuals to apply and help contribute to a better functioning bureaucracy. — Elijah Joseph C. Tubayan
