THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) encouraged state workers not to be rattled by the government’s rightsizing plan on the bureaucracy as it may not actually mean downsizing the public labor force.
Taking a more positive understanding of the belt-tightening measure being pushed by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma said rightsizing also connotes simplifying office procedures.
Such can involve transfer of human resources from one office to another to make a system more effective, said Laguesma who was a corporate executive until his appointment as Labor chief by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
“When you talk of streamlining, it’s all about making work in a business easier and fruitful. On the other hand, structural reforms imply changes to the way the government works. I don’t see downsizing of workforce in those definitions,” he said.
