Unvaxxed City Hall employees last priority for renewal

DAVAO City Jan. 4 (PIA)--The six hundred employees of the City Hall who remain unvaccinated will be last in the priority to be hired this year according to Lemuel Ortonio, chief of the Human Resource Management Office of the city government.

He said the affected employees are advised not to report but to wait for the signed master list of hired employees of the city government. Ortonio bared that there were already employees who pleaded to be hired even unvaccinated.

He stood pat with the Executive Order No. 46 which mandates that only the vaccinated employees will have the priority to be hired by the city.

Ortonio bared that out of the 19,000 personnel of the city hall, 18, 397 have been vaccinated while 603 have not.

He said the 603 comprise of plantilla employees, contract of service and job orders.

“Based on our data, dako gyud niini ang mga contracts of service and job-order employees with a few plantilla employees. Plantilla employees will be subjected to administrative complaints which have the penalty whether suspension or dismissal,” Ortonio said.

He cited health concerns and religious belief as reasons for not having vaccinated. (PIA XI Joey Sem G. Dalumpines

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