700 JOs in Cebu City Hall Lose Jobs

Some 700 job-order (JO) personnel in the Cebu City Government were ordered to no longer report for work starting Tuesday, May 31.

Acting Cebu City Mayor Margarita Osmeña signed several memoranda on Monday morning addressed to different City Hall departments terminating the services of some of their job-order workers effective May 31, 2016.

According to the memorandum, the JO’s appointment papers also stated the City could let them go before their contracts end “for lack of funds or when their services are no longer needed.”

These workers were hired in January and in the months after.

Their contracts are supposed to end on June 30 yet.

The memo that terminated their services also directed them to turn over any government properties assigned to them.

Osmeña said these workers’ services were no longer needed.

She cited, as an example, several JO workers hired by the Coastal Management Board (CMB).

“The group planted mangroves. They planted these, so they are only watching them grow,” she said.

Osmeña also alleged that most of these JO workers were hired by the city to be used in the campaign of Team Rama for the May 9 elections.

Aside from CMB, also affected by the termination are the JO workers whose accounts were charged to the Special Education Fund. There are 155 of them.

They are the biggest group of JO workers to lose their jobs Tuesday. (PNA) LAP/EB/EDS