SENATE Majority Leader Joel Villanueva renewed his call for the government to provide security of tenure by absorbing qualified workers hired under temporary arrangements.
Villanueva: Regularize contractual govt workers
The senator was referring to job order (JO) and contract of service (COS) employees, considering that there are available plantilla positions in their respective organizations.
He made the appeal during the Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) presentation of the 2026 National Expenditure Program before the Senate Committee on Finance on Monday.
Villanueva expressed alarm at the steady rise of “endo” (end of contract) workers in government, reaching 939,771 JOs and COS workers in 2024. This figure was on top of the estimated 2 million permanent positions in government.
”Despite raising this concern every year for the past nine years, this practice is still ongoing,” Villanueva said., This news data comes from:http://www.redcanaco.com
Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman assured Villanueva that the DBCC is prioritizing providing plantilla positions to qualified JOs and COS employees in the implementation of the recently signed law on optimizing the bureaucracy.
- Government work, classes on Tuesday suspended due to bad weather
- PH to host seafarers’ welfare forum
- Artikulo Onse' group calls for independent panel to probe flood control corruption
- US approves .5M in assistance to Nigeria to help address hunger
- Sara favors punishing officials, lifestyle checks
- Manila marks National Heroes Day with job fair
- Berlin urges Israel to 'immediately' improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza
- Trump names US ambassador to India
- US appeals court blocks Trump's use of wartime law for deportations
- Malacañang hits back at VP Duterte's criticism on flood scam probe
