That’s what the labor union of the state-run Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) is basically claiming when they asked a Pasay City court to help them fight the job rationalization scheme that recently led to around 190 employees being laid off.
“In a petition filed Tuesday, Oct 22, the Sweepstakes Employees Union (SEU) accused the PCSO management of grave abuse of discretion and of disregarding due process and the implementing rules of the government’s rationalization program,” Jaymee T. Gamil reports in The Philippine Daily Inquirer.
In fact, SEU president Christopher Bautista claimed that “the lottery agency’s plan reduces PCSO’s existing plantilla by 20 percent (or 497 positions) from 2,223 to 1,726.” However, he pointed out that this didn’t make sense as its present workforce stands at only 1,550.
This was why, Bautista said, the Aug 27 resolution that approved the layoff of 44 permanent employees and 146 casual and temporary employees seemed downright cruel. *Indeed, those number combinations are very painful.
