DBM denies rightsizing to lead to mass layoff

Wena Cos, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Government workers belonging to the Confederation for Unity, Recognition, and Advancement of Government Employees (COURAGE) and Kawani laban sa Kontraktwalisasyon stage a protest in front of the National Housing Authority (NHA) gate, at the Elliptical Circle in Quezon City, on June 24, 2022. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News/File " src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/news/07/26/20220624-government-workers-protest-jc-1401.jpg"/><figcaption>Government workers belonging to the Confederation for Unity, Recognition, and Advancement of Government Employees (COURAGE) and Kawani laban sa Kontraktwalisasyon stage a protest in front of the National Housing Authority (NHA) gate, at the Elliptical Circle in Quezon City, on June 24, 2022. <em>Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News/File</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA — The Department of Budget and Management on Tuesday denied that the proposal to rightsize government would result in a mass layoff. </p><p>President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in his first State of the Nation Address on Monday urged lawmakers to prioritize passing a law on the National Government Rightsizing Program (NGRP).</p><p>&quot;[Rightsizing] is not actually a mass layoff of government workers, it is actually [making] it more efficient to serve the people,&quot; Secretary Amenah Pangandaman said in a post-SONA economic briefing. </p><p>&quot;The rightsizing bill will help our bureaucracy have an agile, efficient, responsive, and technology-driven workforce,&quot; she added. </p><p>Marcos described the NGRP as &quot;a reform mechanism that seeks to enhance the government’s institutional capacity to perform its mandate and to provide better services, while ensuring optimal and efficient use of resources.&quot;</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>&quot;The government will be in a much better shape and do much more with less; we will have some efficiency gain,&quot; Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno said during the economic briefing.</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, Pangandaman said in a previous statement. </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>Around 4 percent or 71,635 of the nearly 1.7 million officials were working in 126 GOCCs, it added. </p><p>Government workers group COURAGE earlier said scrimping on the government&#x27;s budget should not come at the expense of job security. </p><p>&quot;Ayusin n&#x27;yo muna ang tax efficiency collection, ayusin muna ang allocation of resources,&quot; added Rox Ferrer, a member of Kawani Laban sa Kontraktwalisasyon (KALAKON).</p><p>(Fix the tax efficiency collection first, fix the allocation of resources.) </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/20/22/mga-kawani-ng-gobyerno-nagprotesta-sa-rightsizing-ng-marcos-admin">‘Hindi sacrificial lambs’: Mga kawani ng gobyerno, nagprotesta sa ‘rightsizing’ ng Marcos admin</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/22/22/govt-urged-lower-retirement-ages-fill-permanent-posts">Gov&#x27;t urged to lower retirement ages, fill permanent positions</a></li></ul><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=2141437" 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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DBM denies rightsizing to lead to mass layoff

DBM denies rightsizing to lead to mass layoff

Wena Cos,

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Published Jul 26, 2022 11:30 AM PHT

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