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Departments asked to report number of employees, hours of leave taken
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Posted on May 24 2009
Sen. Maria “Frica” Pangelinan and Rep. Ray N. Yumul asked government department heads to report the number of their personnel and the hours of leave taken during calendar year 2008 to help in the review of the Fitial administration’s proposed Fiscal Year 2010 budget.
Pangelinan, chair of the Senate Fiscal Affairs Committee, along with Yumul who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee, is gathering pieces of information regarding current public employment.
“One area is the amount of leave being used,” Pangelinan and Yumul said.
Pangelinan’s office is now compiling the information gathered from department heads.
In a memorandum, Pangelinan said data provided is essential to building a better understanding of the needs of each department and the use of human resources to meet those needs.
On April 1, the Fitial administration proposed a $162.82 million budget for FY 2010, which runs from Oct. 1, 2009, to Sept. 30, 2010.
The Senate and House’s fiscal affairs/ways and means committees have since been working on the governor’s budget proposal.
Earlier, Yumul’s office found out that the government hired an administrative assistant, a clinical attendant, and a conservation technician right after the enactment of the FY 2009 budget that restricts hiring until Sept. 30, 2009, except for critical positions and replacement hires.
An administrative assistant started working for $24,999.52 a year, two days after the March 13 signing of the law. The administrative assistant’s salary was much higher than the $13,703.04 annual salary of the clinical attendant 1 who started working three days after the budget bill became law. A conservation technician earning $11,279.84 a year started working on March 23, based on a list provided to Yumul by Isidro K. Seman, acting director of the Office of Personnel Management.
