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The Civil Service Commission (CSC) recently clarified its policy on the employment in the government service of Filipinos with dual citizenship.
Republic Act No. 9225 or the “Citizenship Retention and Re-Acquisition Act of 2003” states that natural born Filipinos who were naturalized in other countries could retain or re-acquire Philippine citizenship and may only be appointed to any public office after (1) taking an oath of allegiance to the Republic of the Philippines and its duly constituted authorities prior to their assumption to office, and (2) renouncing their oath of allegiance to the country where they took the oath.
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Atty. Ryan Alvin R. Acosta sits as new commissioner of the Civil Service Commission (CSC), the central human resource agency of the Philippine government.
Commissioner Acosta, 42, served as Deputy Executive Secretary for Legal Affairs of the Office of the President before he was nominated to said new role. His nomination was confirmed by the Commission on Appointments on 2 February.
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A Social Weather Stations (SWS) September 2021 survey has shown that an estimated 2.5 million Filipino families experienced hunger – due to lack of food to eat – at least once in the past three months.
Many of those who experience hunger are children, who tend to do poorly at school. The government has undertaken numerous programs to address hunger, one of which is the school-based feeding program mandated by Republic Act 11037, also known as an Act Institutionalizing a National Feeding Program for Undernourished Children in Public Day Care of 2018, and primarily implemented by the Department of Education.
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Alicia dela Rosa-Bala ends her fixed term as head of the Civil Service Commission, the central human resource (HR) agency of the Philippine government, on 2 February 2022.
Chairperson Bala was appointed by former President Benigno C. Aquino on 9 October 2015. She brought her expertise and years of experience in social work to the CSC to introduce policies and programs that empower and uplift civil servants and promote social change and development, bringing “malasakit” to public sector HR management.
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Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Civil Service Commission’s (CSC) Contact Center ng Bayan (CCB) resolved a total of 211,726 transactions in 2021.
This, from a total of 212,382 transactions received, posting a resolution rate of 99.69%.
