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Wednesday, 7 September 2011

Looking for a job? Why not apply for one in the government !

Gov't has 93,000 job openings !

MANILA, Philippines - Looking for a job? Why not apply for one in the government, the country’s biggest employer.

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The bureaucracy has job openings totaling more than 93,000 this year and next year, according to budget documents submitted to the House appropriations committee by Budget Secretary Florencio Abad.

It will recruit nurses, teachers, policemen, auditors, lawyers, judges, firemen, soldiers and doctors, among other personnel.

Based on the documents, there are at present 67,132 vacant positions

in various agencies waiting to be filled by agency heads. There are funds for these jobs in this year's budget and in the proposed P1.8-trillion 2012 spending program.

Additionally, there are funds in next year's budget for the hiring of 13,000 new teachers, 12,000 new nurses, 200 doctors, and 1,021 midwives.

The basic pay in government is not bad and is already comparable to the salary in the private sector. The hiring rate for a public school teacher, for instance, is about P15,000, excluding allowances.

The Department of Education has the biggest number of vacant positions with 31,294. This is on top of the 13,000 new teachers it is authorized to hire next year.

To fill a total of 44,294 existing and new teaching and non-teaching jobs, the department is allowed to use P11.8 billion out of its P238.8-billion 2012 budget.

The other agencies with vacancies are Congress with 655 unfilled positions; the Supreme Court and lower courts, 5,539; Civil Service Commission, 269; Commission on Audit, 6,483; Commission on Elections, 547; Office of the Ombudsman, 1,062; Bureau of Fire Protection, 921; Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, 58; Philippine National Police, 5,234; Armed Forces of the Philippines, 4,605; state colleges and universities, 5,569; Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, 738; Philippine Military Academy, 74; Philippine Science High School, 94; Commission on Higher Education, 113; AFP Medical Center, 97; Veterans Memorial Medical Center, 149; National Defense College of the Philippines, 14; and Philippine Public Safety College, 25.

The Department of Health currently has 3,589 jobs waiting to be filled. This number is on top of the 13,221 new nurses, doctors and midwives the department is allowed to hire in the 2012 budget.

It is not clear why more than 67,000 Government jobs have remained unfilled.

But according to Eastern Samar Rep. Ben Evardone, many agencies deliberately refuse to fill vacancies so they could generate savings that they divert to more allowances, bonuses and year-end incentives.

Abad said the more than 67,000 unfilled positions have been vacant for many years, prompting his department to remove the corresponding funds from agencies and put them in a separate budget item called "miscellaneous personnel benefits fund."

In all, a total of P23.4 billion would be available in the 2012 budget to fill these positions.

"All the agencies concerned have to do is to hire people and we will release the money. It's all about transparency and accountability, and ensuring that funds are spent for purposes for which they are intended,"

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Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Meralco sets franchise area expansion

MANILA, Philippines — Despite the dominance it is already wielding in the distribution segment of the power industry, Manila Electric Company (Meralco) is still aggressively expanding its franchise area with acquisition of utility assets proximate to its operating facilities.

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Meralco President and Chief Executive Officer Manuel V. Pangilinan disclosed that they are setting sights on prospective asset acquisitions in Batangas, Quezon, Pampanga and Tarlac.

“We are looking at those adjacent to the existing franchise area of Meralco,” he stressed, noting that their primary consideration would be to ensure that its acquired facilities can be physically connected to its present distribution network.

On question whether Meralco needs to get legislative approvals for the franchise of each of the acquisition it will be making on other distribution utilities, Pangilinan opined that “each area might have different circumstances” and they are still studying what complexities they will have to go through in the policy domain.

Meralco Chief Operating Officer Oscar S. Reyes noted that they are only scouring for opportunities in areas where they are being welcomed to expand their business operations.

He stressed that even before they would start negotiations with a certain party or distribution utility, there are major concerns that they would want answered; such as: If they are “welcome” in the areas they are eyeing for acquisition; if the deal will bring value to consumers in these areas; if the venture would be bringing in business sense for the utility firm; and if their acquisitions would be getting support from the government.

Reyes further emphasized that their franchise area expansion is not only intended at widening their distribution network, but also for the company to share its experience in distribution, such as in bringing down system loss and in injecting efficiency in operations.

Onward, the utility firm is also looking at re-gaining its expertise in power generation with its planned investments, while also scouring options on supply sourcing from other providers.

Meralco cast on blueprint some 1,500 megawatts of power projects. The first batch would be a peaking facility of 150 megawatts; while the next one would be a baseload coal plant of 600 megawatts.

As the restructuring of the power industry moves notches forward, the giant utility firm is also working on strategies to keep its big-ticket customers’ patronage even with the advent of open access and retail competition.

Thursday, 5 May 2011

Gov’t pushes job creation, fair income

MANILA, Philippines — Creation of jobs that is productive and delivers a fair income is the focus of the Aquino administration, Vice President Jejomar Binay told top employers in the country yesterday.

In his keynote address during the 32nd National Conference of Employers in Pasay, organized by the Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP), Binay said that the government is focused on improving the quality of jobs even as it aims to increase job availability in the country.

“In working to alleviate poverty Govt. Jobs in the Philippines, the government is rightly concerned with setting an environment conducive to job creation. But more than the number of jobs we need to create, we desire to improve the quality of jobs that can be offered to our countrymen,” Binay said.

“In creating employment, we must be mindful of what it means to have decent work,” the Vice President said.

“It involves opportunities for work that is productive and delivers a fair income; provides security in the workplace and social protection for workers and their families; offers better prospects for personal development and encourages social integration; gives people the freedom to express their concerns, to organize and participate in decisions that affect their lives; and guarantees equal opportunities and equal treatment for all,” he added.

The Vice President said that the International Labor Organization (ILO) defines decent work as “productive work for women and men in the conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity.”