CABANATUAN CITY -The employees’ federation of the Department of Agriculture sought on recently a series of “integrative consultations” with the department officials and Department of Budget and Management amid fears of “massive social and financial dislocation and constructive dismissal” of some 9,000 people under a planned rationalization.
Antonio Reyes, president of the National Federation of Employees’ Associations of the DA, said that the integrative consultation with DBM would clarify residual issues and improve the draft of the rationalization plan that will affect at least 28 DA-attached agencies.
The move, he said, will result to in eventual layoffs due to scaling down, phaseout, abolition and mergers, which would require redeployment of employees to other offices.
Reyes said his group, composed of 25,000 employees, has submitted 10 position papers, statements and manifestos on the negative effects of the plan, drafted under Executive Order 366, which he said was drawn up without consultation with stakeholders such as farmers, fisherfolk and rank-and-file employees.
In the National Irrigation Administration alone, some 2,000 employees are threatened by the plan, said Reyes.
Under the 25-page draft EO entitled “Department of Agriculture Rationalization Plan of 2006,” the secretary is given broad powers to undertake rationalization actions such as scaling down, phasing out, abolition, strengthening, deactivation, merger, consolidation and regularization. It also provides that the 28 DA-attached agencies will be restructured and grouped “according to functions to achieve efficiency, eliminate conflict of interests and duplication, and enhance the quality of service.” (Armand M. Galang)
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