This document amends the conditions for dropping employees from the rolls at the Commission on Audit (COA). [1] It discovered some employees dropped from the rolls had pending administrative cases against them. [2] To prevent employees from avoiding penalties, paragraphs 1 and 4 of COA Memorandum 83-340 were amended. [3] The amendments require checking for pending cases and pursuing serious cases that warrant dismissal before dropping employees.
This document amends the conditions for dropping employees from the rolls at the Commission on Audit (COA). [1] It discovered some employees dropped from the rolls had pending administrative cases against them. [2] To prevent employees from avoiding penalties, paragraphs 1 and 4 of COA Memorandum 83-340 were amended. [3] The amendments require checking for pending cases and pursuing serious cases that warrant dismissal before dropping employees.
This document amends the conditions for dropping employees from the rolls at the Commission on Audit (COA). [1] It discovered some employees dropped from the rolls had pending administrative cases against them. [2] To prevent employees from avoiding penalties, paragraphs 1 and 4 of COA Memorandum 83-340 were amended. [3] The amendments require checking for pending cases and pursuing serious cases that warrant dismissal before dropping employees.
This document amends the conditions for dropping employees from the rolls at the Commission on Audit (COA). [1] It discovered some employees dropped from the rolls had pending administrative cases against them. [2] To prevent employees from avoiding penalties, paragraphs 1 and 4 of COA Memorandum 83-340 were amended. [3] The amendments require checking for pending cases and pursuing serious cases that warrant dismissal before dropping employees.
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COMMISSION ON AUDIT MEMORANDUM NO.
85-340-A January 15, 1985
TO : All COA Officials and Employees.
SUBJECT : Amendment to COA Memorandum No. 83-340 dated March 22, 1983, on dropping from the employees roll.
In certain instances, it was discovered that some employees of this Commission who had been separated from the service by virtue of COA Memorandum No. 83-340 dated March 22, 1983, had pending administrative cases against them as of the date of their separation. Considering that dropping from the rolls is not deemed a disciplinary measure, such personnel action would have the effect of condoning the offenses involved in said cases of which the employees might have been otherwise adjudged guilty and for which they ought to have been meted the corresponding administrative penalties, such as dismissal with its attendant forfeiture of benefits for grave offenses, or fine for less grave and light offenses. The erring employee who is thus dropped from the rolls is thereby enabled to evade and escape the penal sanctions that he otherwise deserves. Such an undesirable consequence has never been intended by COA Memorandum No. 83-340.
Accordingly, in order to forestall the recurrence of the aforespecified situation,
paragraphs No. 1 and 4 of COA Memorandum No. 83-340 are hereby amended to read as follows:
"1. CONDITIONS FOR DROPPING -
"a. An official or employee of the Commission who has been continuously
absent for one (1) month without an approved leave of absence (AWOL) shall be immediately dropped from the rolls, provided that the notice in accordance with par. 2b(2) hereof shall have been made and that par. 4(a) hereof has been complied with."
"b. An official or employee who goes on an approved leave of absence and
fails to return to work within one month from the date of expiration of his leave without reasonable or valid cause despite due notice pursuant to the provisions of par. 2 (a) hereof shall likewise be dropped from the rolls, provided that par. 4 (a) has been complied with.
"4. ORDER DROPPING FROM THE ROLLS
"a. The order dropping an employee from the rolls shall be issued by the Chairman upon recommendation of the Manager of the Administrative Office. Towards this end, the said Manager shall obtain a certification from the Legal Office as to whether or not the employee concerned has pending administrative case. In the negative, he (the Manager) shall forthwith recommend the dropping from the rolls. In the affirmative, such certification shall indicate the nature of the offense/s charged (whether light, less grave, or grave). Where the charge involves such offense, the nature of which does not warrant his dismissal or separation from the service, the reespondent employee shall be s recommended and the other dropping him from the rolls shall contain a reference to the pending administrative case against him. However, if the charge is serious and warrants the penalty of dismissal, the respondent employee shall not be recommended for dropping from the rolls. The administrative case against him shall thereupon be pursued until its final resolution to the end that the respondent is meted out the corresponding penalty in the event that he is adjudged guilty of the charges."
"b. Dropping from the rolls is not considered a disciplinary action."
All other provisions of COA Memorandum No. 83-340 not inconsistent with the foregoing amendments shall remain in force and effect.
