COAble: Excessive Hiring of Job Order and Contract of Service Workers

The municipal government of Carigara in Leyte province was ordered by the Commission on Audit (COA) to end the excessive hiring of contractual and job order (JO) employees as it had led to overspending.

LGU Carigara had appropriated P18.93 million to cover the wages of its JO/Contract of Service workers; however, it spent P8.79 million “more than the amount appropriated for wages of contractual/JO personnel.”

COA also found that the accomplishment reports of the JO/COS workers of the LGU showed “exact duplicated copies of the accomplishment report of other JO workers except for the name and signature”, aside from these workers do not have detailed personal records on file.

COA says in its report that the accomplishment reports of the JO workers were duplicated several times in which only the names and period covered were indicated or changed.

The LGU claims, however, that the “limitation as to hiring of JO is the discretion of the local chief executive.”

Source: Rappler | COA orders Leyte town to stop excessive hiring of contractual workers

COAble:

• Excessive hiring of Contract of Service (COS) and Job Order (JO) workers;
• Overspending: spending more than the appropriated amount;
• Duplication of tasks;
• No detailed personnel records on file.