Cebu City gov’t employees face uncertainty over Rama’s ‘rightsizing’ plan

Pia Piquero 01/03/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Engel Bert has been working as a street sweeper under the Department of Public Services (DPS) in Cebu City for five years now. The Job Order employee proudly shared with CDN Digital that…

Rama assures city hall employees of Christmas bonus, due process in job renewal

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 10/03/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — While Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama announced, on Monday, Oct. 3, 2022, that regular and casual employees of city hall would receive a Christmas bonus, he also urged city hall employees not to…

P3K to P10K Christmas bonus for Cebu City Hall employees assured

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/16/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella has assured the release of the P3,000 to P10,000 Christmas bonus to City Hall employees. Labella said the bonus is minimal compared to the past years but was…

Cebu City to terminate 13 casual, job order employees for drug use

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/03/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines—The Cebu City government will terminate 13 job-order and casual employees for testing positive in drug tests done in November.  City Legal Officer Rey Gealon said in a text message to CDN Digital that the…

2,900 JOs, casuals in Capitol downsized to 200

Rosalie O. Abatayo 06/28/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Of the 2,900 job order and casual employees of the Cebu provincial government, only over 200 were shortlisted for temporary rehiring by the transition team of Governor-elect Gwendolyn Garcia. The services of the…

Heavier than usual city traffic explained

Inna Gian Mejia, Nestle L. Semilla 01/16/2018

  The Cebu City Transportation Office (CCTO) has asked the riding public for more patience and understanding amid the heavy traffic happening in the city since the start of the Fiesta Señor celebrations last Friday. Motorists are…

Some CPDRC casual employees lose jobs

Cristelita E. Boco 07/15/2017

  SOME casual employees assigned at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) may find themselves jobless in the coming months. According to Bonifer Nacorla, human resource head of the Cebu provincial government, many of them…

1,600 Cebu City casual employees rehired

07/01/2016

After their contracts ended on Thursday, contracts of 1,600 casual city employees were renewed on the first day of Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña’s administration. According to Amay Abella, Cebu City Hall’s human resource and development head, the renewed casual employees will…

Traffic, public services staff may be retained

Nestle L. Semilla 06/20/2016

MOST of the frontline personnel assigned at the Cebu City Transportation Office and the Department of Public Services (DPS) may be retained while a lot of casuals won’t be renewed once Mayor-elect Tomas Osmeña assumes office on…

3,400 CASUALS TO GET THE AXE

Doris C. Bongcac, Nestle L. Semilla 06/17/2016

Cebu City may be left with a few traffic enforcers or street cleaners starting on July 1 when the service contracts of about 3,413 casual employees of the city government will end. The casual employees were advised…

ROAD RAGE

Grace II Pecaoco, Jhunnex Napallacan, Marian Z. Codilla 06/04/2015

Secret video goes viral: Radio blocktimer berates Citom enforcer after traffic  violation You are just a casual employee.” “I work in the media.” “There have been many Citom personnel I’ve asked Mayor Michael Rama to junk before.”…

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