‘Massacre’ at OSG 08/17/2010

SolGen Cadiz ignores SC’s ‘status quo’ order on EO2, fires ‘midnight’ employees ‘Massacre’ at OSG 08/17/2010 No judicial courtesy is being extended to the Supreme Court by newly appointed Solicitor-General Jose Anselmo Cadiz, as he fired many employees in the Office of the Solicitor-General, a day after he was appointed head of the OSG, in defiance of the SC’s call for the executive department not to enforce Executive Order No. 2 while the case remains pending. Furious employees, many of them lawyers, have slammed Cadiz’s action, which was justified as merely being consistent with EO2 issued by President Aquino last July 30 that revoked all supposed midnight appointments. “We are extremely disappointed at how we were shabbily treated by Cadiz,” they complained. Last Aug. 6, 2010 or two days after EO No. 2 was announced by Malacañang and a day after Cadiz assumed his post at the OSG, he designated one of the Assistant Solicitors General to tell the affected employees that Aug. 6 was going to be their last day at the agency. Cadiz is doing much worse than Malacañang in sacking people, many of them career officers since he issues orders as serious as sacking people without the benefit of a written notice, the OSG employees complained..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100817hed1.html

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