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.jyxingfa.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.
Villanueva: Regularize contractual govt workers
- Australia's mushroom murderer faces victims' family in court
- Xi and Putin reaffirm 'old friend' ties in the face of US challenges
- A summit and parade in China may signal a geopolitical shift
- Appointments panel holds first session
- House tackles P881B public works budget amid flood control anomalies
- Indonesia leader orders investigation into driver's protest death
- DPWH exec fired, 2 others face dismissal over flood control mess
- Search for survivors after Afghan earthquake kills 800
- ‘Gomez ignorant of how media works’
- 'I have no resentment,' says Torre after dismissal as PNP chief
