Big blunder marks Noy’s first kick-out order By Aytch S. dela Cruz 07/02/2010

Palace downplays memo blooper, claims it was draft Big blunder marks Noy’s first kick-out order By Aytch S. dela Cruz 07/02/2010 Inexperience and cluelessness say it all. Without realizing that a presidential Memorandum Circular (MC), the first memorandum issued by President Aquino upon stepping into Malacañang, would result in the bureaucracy facing a huge collapse, the Aquino administration, on its very first day, committed a big blunder when the President, through his Executive Secretary, declared “all non-career executive positions vacant as of 30 June 2010, and extending the services of contractual employees whose contracts expire on 20 June 2010.” The circular was handed to Malacañang reporters, only to have this replaced with a “revised circular” dated on the same day as the original. The revised circular read: “Declaring all co-terminous third level positions vacant as of June 30, 2010; directing all non-career executive service officials (non-CESO) occupying career executive service (CES) positions to continue to perform their duties and responsibilities; and extending the services of certain contractual and/or casual employees whose contracts expire on June 30, 2010.” The presidential spokesman, Edwin Lacierda, who appeared to have embraced this early, the art of prevarication, claimed that the first circular was merely a draft, and the second one was claimed to have been the official one, with the “language” fine-tuned. The MC created too much confusion, with heads of bureaus leaving their posts, then returning to their posts, given the second circular that corrected the first. Aquino’s spokesman, Edwin Lacierda, yesterday admitted to Palace reporters that there was a “lapse in the language” used in the first MC thus requiring the Office of the Executive Secretary to withdraw the order and provide a new one, evidently antedated, to plug the loopholes out so as to avoid miscommunication among the government employees.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100702hed1.html

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