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., This news data comes from:http://ditmgffu.yamato-syokunin.com
”Despite raising this concern every year for the past nine years, this practice is still ongoing,” Villanueva said.
Villanueva: Regularize contractual govt workers
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.
- Berlin urges Israel to 'immediately' improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza
- Seoul says fired warning shots after North Korean troops crossed border
- Metro Manila, rest of Luzon would be rainy due to ‘habagat’ —Pagasa
- Marcos opens Hyundai's shipyard in PH
- Escudero says new lease law to make PH more appealing to investors
- Lacson seeks probe of 2 PH contractors' board members for conflict of interest
- Customs preparing report on Discayas’ 28 luxury cars
- Marikina City chief of police relieved
- North Korea's Kim Jong Un travels to Beijing to watch military parade alongside Putin, Xi Jinping
- Taiwan: China illegally deploying oil rigs in its waters
