SENATE Majority Leader Joel Villanueva renewed his call for the government to provide security of tenure by absorbing qualified workers hired under temporary arrangements.
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.
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., This news data comes from:http://aichuwei.com
- Some National Guard units in Washington are now carrying firearms in escalation of Trump deployment
- Police officers face more charges in missing cockfight enthusiasts case
- Macron's decision to recognize Palestinian state angers Israel and the US
- DPWH exec fired, 2 others face dismissal over flood control mess
- Wildfire tears through California gold rush town
- DOJ issues lookout order vs Atong Ang, others over missing cockfighters
- North Korea's Kim oversees ICBM engine test — state media
- AFP: It would take more than a tugboat to tow BRP Sierra Madre from Ayungin Shoal
- What to know about Indonesia's nationwide unrest over lawmakers' perks
- Govt debt swells to record P17.58T
