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BY MAE SINGUAY
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BACOLOD City – The Civil Service Commission (CSC) Region 6 ordered the reinstatement of 10 city hall workers whose appointments former mayor Monico Puentevella revoked via Executive Order (EO) No. 044-02-2016.
The CSC also declared the EO “not in order.”
Ordered reinstated were Wilma Salinas, Jan Michael Vincent Petierre, Angel Barrientos Jr., Nelia Sedillo, Michael Arboleda, Robert Toledo, Adelino Untal Jr., Mark Oliver Binguan, Daniel Medecielo, and Hannibal Varca.
The latest ruling was in response to the motion for reconsideration the 10 workers filed against a June 30 CSC decision.
In March, 66 city hall employees — including the 10 recently ordered reinstated — asked the CSC to declare EO No. 044-02-2016 “illegal, null and void.”
They also wanted the CSC to validate their appointments made by then acting mayor Greg Gasataya, reinstate them to their respective positions, and grant them back wages from the time they assumed their posts.
Gasataya made the appointments when he was temporarily occupying the post of Puentevella, who was preventively suspended by the Sandiganbayan over a graft charge, between Nov. 16, 2015 and Feb. 14, 2016.
The CSC has yet to decide on the complaints filed by the rest of the appointees.
On June 30, the CSC dismissed the appeal filed by Salinas and company for being “premature.” It said the commission’s field office in Negros Occidental has not yet acted on their appointments.
But in their motion dated July 28, 2016, the 10 employees said their appointments were a “secondary issue” and they wanted EO No. 044-02-2016 declared “not in order” based on Section 1, Rule IV of the CSC Memorandum Circular No. 40, series of 1998, as amended.
In a ruling promulgated on Oct. 4, the CSC directed Mayor Evelio Leonardia to put the 10 workers back to their posts and pay them back wages and benefits./PN
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