Woe to the habitual absentee Dagupan city employee who can’t get the same VIP treatment like the absentee city officials.

The city government has filed another administrative case against its 11 regular employees for habitual absenteeism.

The 11 employees were identified as Oscar Apostol, Regildo Biala, Paul Calimlim, Hilario Catabona, Jessie De La Cruz, Norlito Estrada, Rustica Ibasan, Perfecto Prado, Isidor Tibayan, Mario Viray, and Rudolfo Cuison.

City Legal Officer Geraldine Baniqued said the employees are assigned to the Cleanliness Campaign Task Force whose main job responsibility is to ensure that the city sidewalks and streets are clean and free of any debris.

Baniqued said the 11 employees, are covered by the Civil Service law.

In the Sangguniang Panlunsod, perennial and habitual absentee Councilor Teofilo Guadiz III has not been reprimanded nor suspended by the Department of Interior and Local Government despite absences from half of the regular sessions held each year for the past 5 years.

CCTF supervisors Cesar Muñoz and Gilbert Ferrer, in their joint affidavit, stated that the employees have incurred unauthorized absences causing them great difficulties in accomplishing their work.

Baniqued cited that under the Leave Law of the Civil Service, “an officer or employee in the civil service shall be considered habitually absent if he incurs unauthorized absences exceeding the allowable 2.5 days monthly leave credit for at least three months in a semester or at least 3 consecutive months during the year.”

The city legal officer gave the employees 10 days to submit their responses. At press time, only four submitted their answers and attached medical certificates to explain their absences.

The cases filed against these erring employees are one of the 20 administrative cases that the city government had filed since last year.- AQL

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