Career execs exempted from president’s memo

Career officials are exempted from the filing of courtesy resignations ordered by President Rodrigo Duterte, according to the Career Executive Service Board (CESB).

The CESB reiterated the two exceptions under the President’s memo directing presidential appointees to tender courtesy resignations until August 29.

On a CESB circular dated August 23, the board defined career official as “one who is appointed to a Career Executive Service position and who possess both the CES eligibility and an appointment to a CES Office (CESO) rank.”

Career Executive Service positions are those that are generally above the division chief level and who exercise executive and managerial functions.

Such positions are undersecretary, assistant secretary, bureau director, bureau assistant director, regional director, assistant regional director, and department service chief.

These also include executive positions of equivalent rank as may be classified by the CESB, all of whom are appointed by the president.

Aside from career officials, also falling under the exception are those whose appointments are recurrently being processed.

These are CES eligibles whose recommendations for rank appointment still await pending action by the president, the circular states.

The board accounted at least 34 recommendations for rank appointment coming from different government agencies that have been submitted to the Office of the President.

In Central Visayas, one of the recommendees for original appointment to CES Officer Rank 6 is Bernadette Araneta Susvilla, Acting Assistant Schools Division Superintendent of the Department of Education in the Division of Bogo City.

The recommendation, supported through resolution numbered 1285, was approved during the July 2016 board meeting and was transmitted to the Presidential Management Staff on the same month.

As per standard procedure, the appointment to appropriate rank in the CES is made by the president upon the recommendation of the CESB.

Duterte earlier announced those thousands of executive posts who are presidential appointees be vacated — a move he made as a way "to rid the bureaucracy of corruption."