Gov't has 93,000 job openings

The country’s biggest employer, the government, is opening jobs totaling more than 93,000 this year and next year, according to budget documents submitted to the House appropriations committee by Budget Secretary Florencio Abad.

It will recruit nurses, teachers, policemen, auditors, lawyers, judges, firemen, soldiers and doctors, among other personnel.

Based on the documents, there are at present 67,132 vacant positions in various agencies waiting to be filled by agency heads. There are funds for these jobs in this year's budget and in the proposed P1.8-trillion 2012 spending program.

The Department of Education has the biggest number of vacant positions with 31,294. This is on top of the 13,000 new teachers it is authorized to hire next year.

To fill a total of 44,294 existing and new teaching and non-teaching jobs, the department is allowed to use P11.8 billion out of its P238.8-billion 2012 budget.

The other agencies with vacancies are Congress with 655 unfilled positions; the Supreme Court and lower courts, 5,539; Civil Service Commission, 269; Commission on Audit, 6,483; Commission on Elections, 547; Office of the Ombudsman, 1,062; Bureau of Fire Protection, 921; Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, 58; Philippine National Police, 5,234; Armed Forces of the Philippines, 4,605; state colleges and universities, 5,569; Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, 738; Philippine Military Academy, 74; Philippine Science High School, 94; Commission on Higher Education, 113; AFP Medical Center, 97; Veterans Memorial Medical Center, 149; National Defense College of the Philippines, 14; and Philippine Public Safety College, 25.

The Department of Health currently has 3,589 jobs waiting to be filled. This number is on top of the 13,221 new nurses, doctors and midwives the department is allowed to hire in the 2012 budget.

Why is there a 67,000 unfilled positions in the government? That we don't know.

Read: philSTAR.com