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Ensuring workers’ welfare in the face of rightsizing: Sen. Risa Hontiveros presides over the hybrid hearing of the Finance Subcommittee H on the proposed 2023 budget of the Civil Service Commission (CSC), Career Executive Service Board (CESB) and the Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA). Hontiveros raised the issue of rightsizing the bureaucracy being pushed by the administration of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. which will affect around 288,000 civil servants. The senator said the CSC has a role to ensure that the employee’s rights and welfare will be protected in the face of rightsizing. “Because we are here to examine the budget that CSC will receive for 2023, the committee wishes to see whether the funding will allow CSC to fulfil its mandate as the central personnel agency of government, while ‘promoting morale, efficiency, integrity, responsiveness, progressiveness, and courtesy in the civil service’,” Hontiveros said on Thursday, October 6, 2022. (Joseph Vidal/Senate PRIB)