After former Negros Occidental Governor Alfredo Marañon, Jr. ordered Provincial Human Resource Management head, Atty. Annabelle Palic, reassigned to the Office of the Governor shortly before the end of his term in order to comply by a recent Department of Budget and Management (DBM) decision, Provincial Administrator, Atty. Rayfrando Diaz II, said Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson has since reversed the assignment.
According to Diaz, the move is part of the ongoing inventory of the provincial government human resources.
In the closing days of the Marañon administration, then-Negros Occidental Provincial Budget Officer Jose Percival Salado called for Palic to be relieved of duty after DBM issued an opinion disallowing the creation of a human resource department.
According to Salado, the governor met with employees who would be affected by the shuffle and were asked if they preferred posts within the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist or vacancies within other departments./DGB, WDJ