Gov't rightsizing 'not aimed at terminating employees': Palace

Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News 

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Yummie Dingding" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/life/04/04/20230404-marcos-jr-via-yummie-dingding.jpg"/><figcaption>President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. presides over the sectoral meeting on the updates on the government right-sizing program in Malacañang Palace on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. <em>Yummie Dingding</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA — Rightsizing in the executive branch is meant to &quot;upskill and reskill&quot; government workers and &quot;is not aimed at terminating employees&quot;, Malacañang said on Tuesday.</p><p>President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. earlier in the day met with the Presidential Legislative Liaison Office and the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to discuss the matter. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/02/22/23/marcos-abolishes-dofs-one-stop-shop-amid-rightsizing">Marcos abolishes DOF&#x27;s one-stop-shop tax center due to &#x27;rightsizing, scams&#x27;: Palace</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/07/14/22/govt-workers-wary-of-losing-jobs-in-rightsizing">Gov&#x27;t workers wary of losing jobs in &#x27;rightsizing&#x27;</a></li></ul><p>During the meeting, Marcos ordered the further assessment of the &quot;present set-up in the executive branch to determine redundant positions&quot; and find out which posts could be merged, the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) said. </p><p>&quot;Government rightsizing is not aimed at terminating employees but to serve as a tool to upskill and reskill the current government workforce to improve state services and programs,&quot; the PCO said. </p><p>The House of Representatives in March passed on third and last reading House Bill No. 7240 or the proposed National Government Rightsizing Act. </p><p>The proposed rightsizing will determine which among the 187 government agencies and government-owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs), with some 2 million personnel, may be streamlined through merging, restructuring or abolition, Secretary Amenah Pangandaman previously said. </p><p>According to data gathered by the ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group, there were 1,755,242 career and non-career government officials and employees as of August 2021, based on the latest Inventory of Government Human Resources Report from the Civil Service Commission. </p><p>More than 4 percent or 71,635 of the nearly 1.7 million officials are working in 126 GOCCs. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/25/22/marcos-pushes-for-govt-rightsizing-in-first-sona">Marcos pushes for government rightsizing in first SONA</a></li></ul><p>GOCCs include the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the Development bank of the Philippines, Government Service Insurance System, Social Security System, and the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation. </p><p>In his first State of the Nation Address, Marcos listed the &quot;National Government Rightsizing Program&quot; among the measures that he urged lawmakers to prioritize passing.</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2130063" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

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Gov't rightsizing 'not aimed at terminating employees': Palace

Gov't rightsizing 'not aimed at terminating employees': Palace

Job Manahan,

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Published Apr 04, 2023 06:07 PM PHT

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