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Seventeenth Congress
First Regular Session

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HOUSE BILLNO, _&744

Introduced by Honorable Mercedes'C. Cagas

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to grant appropriate civil service eligibility to temporary
employees in the government who have rendered at least five (5) years of
continuous and efficient service.

While temporary employees are equipped with the educational
requirement, training and experience for the career service position to which
they are appointed, they lack the appropriate civil service eligibility that will
qualify them for permanent appointment to their current positions.

In 1990, there were around 200,000 temporary government employees
occupying career service positions. These employees benefitted from the
passage of Republic Act (RA) No. 6850 which granted civil service eligibility
to government employees who were appointed under temporary status and have
rendered a total of seven (7) years of efficient service.

Today, 26 years after RA 6850 had been implemented, the population of
government employees has burgeoned, which expectedly come with a large
number of temporary employees. If temporary employees covered under RA
6850 were given the opportunity to become permanent, we cannot see why the
same privilege cannot be extended to the temporary employees who presently
occupy important career service positions.



Article IX-B Section 2(6) of the 1987 Constitution provides that
“temporary employees of the government shall be given such protection as may
be provided by law.” In cognizance of this constitutional mandate, we find it
most fitting to grant appropriate civil service eligibility to temporary employees
in the government who possess at least five years of continuous and efficient
service as of the approval of this proposed measure to help them qualify for
permanent appointment to their current positions.

Hence, approval of this bill is earnestly sought.

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Seventeenth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. _ 2744

Introduced by Honorable Mercedes C. Cagas

AN ACT
GRANTING CIVIL SERVICE ELIGIBILITY UNDER CERTAIN
CONDITIONS TO GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES WHO ARE
APPOINTED UNDER TEMPORARY STATUS AND WHO HAVE
RENDERED AT LEAST FIVE (5) YEARS OF CONTINUOUS AND
EFFICIENT SERVICE

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. Grant of Eligibility. — All government employees
who, as of the approval of this Act, are holding career service positions under
temporary status and who have rendered at least five (5) years of continuous and
efficient service, shall be granted the civil service eligibility that qualifies these
employees for permanent appointment to their current positions: Provided,
That these government employees must have obtained a “satisfactory”
performance rating for the last two semestral rating period and that they have no
pending criminal or administrative case as certified by the immediate supervisor

or head of office.


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SEC. 2. Performance Evaluation Standard. - The Civil Service
Commission shall, consistent with the merit and fitness principle, formulate the
performance evaluation standard to be used in the determination of temporary
employees who are qualified to avail of the privilege granted under this Act.

As used in this section, temporary employee refers to a government
employee who meets the education, experience and training requirements for
the position to which he is appointed except for the appropriate civil service
eligibility.

SEC.3. Implementing Rules and Regulations, ~ The Civil Service
Commission shall, within ninety (90) days from the approval of this Act,
promulgate the rules and regulations necessary for its implementation.

SEC.4.  Effectivity. — This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after
its publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,