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://raet-smfs-vxnt-da.aichuwei.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.
- Pope meets with Chagos refugees and delivers message about rights of the weak against the powerful
- India's Modi seeks closer ties on Asia tour to offset US tariff fallout
- Major road closures in Manila announced for 2025 Bar Examinations
- IBP forms committee on good governance to probe corruption
- Tariffs, migration and cartels will top Rubio's talks in Mexico and Ecuador this week
- ‘God’s Influencer’ to become first millennial saint
- 102-year-old becomes oldest person to summit Mount Fuji
- Napolcom welcomes Nartatez’s move to recall Torre’s reassignments
- Task force cites new threats to media workers
- France seized by fears of new political crisis
