Show cause orders issued to Cebu City gov’t workers who tested positive for illegal drugs

Cebu City Legal Officer, Lawyer Rey Gealon | CDN Digital file photo

The order dated November 18, 2019 directed the recipient “to show cause in writing, preferably with the assistance of a counsel of your choice, within 24 hours from receipt thereof why no appropriate disciplinary action be taken against you for having been found using methamphetamine.”Failure to submit a written explanation will be considered a waiver of the right to be heard, the order added.

He also said that the mayor was the one who authored the compulsory drug test ordinance when he was still councilor.The City Ordinance No. 1829 required all employees of the city government of Cebu to undergo compulsory drug testing as a pre-employment requirement and annual random drug checkups.

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