TWENTY-four former permanent employees of Talisay City Government filed a petition before the Civil Service Commission (CSC) for reinstatement after they were dismissed from the service by the present administration under Mayor Neil Lizares.
Ma. Corazon Robles, president of the Talisay City Government Employees for Reforms, said that they brought the matter to the CSC hoping that they will reinstated as regular employees.
Robles and her colleagues appeared in a press conference at the Negros Press Club building yesterday, claiming that they were dismissed without due process.
Some of them have been employed by Talisay City for 16 years while some have been in service for nine years.
They said the Lizares administration are offering to employ them back but as casual or job order employees only which they refused.
“The act must be condemned in the strictest sense as the act violated not only our constitutional right to security of tenure but also our dignity as human beings,” the employees said.
They added that they are identified as supporters of former Mayor Eric Saratan that’s why they were dismissed from service.
In a statement emailed to Sun.Star Bacolod, Lizares through City Legal Officer Kirk Magnabe said that a thorough investigation was conducted and the department heads of the 24 employees reported that they failed to assume office in their designated departments for more than 30 days from the date of their appointments.
There were no valid detail orders for them to report to another office which is a violation of the Civil Service Rule on Appointments, the mayor said.
“Again, we are not closing our doors to these employees whose appointments were rendered ineffective. In fact, seven of them already re-applied," the mayor added.
