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., This news data comes from:http://www.jyxingfa.com
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.
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
- Gomez-Estoesta named court administrator by Supreme Court
- Diokno urges Philippines to rejoin ICC to counter China's aggression
- Mob burns Nigerian woman to death over Islam blasphemy claim — police
- ICC postpones Duterte's hearing, reviews fitness to stand trial
- ‘Large shark’ kills man off Sydney beach
- LPA has big chance of intensifying into tropical cyclone to be named ‘Kiko’
- Palace suspends govt work, classes in several areas due to bad weather
- Two dead as strong earthquake jolts Afghanistan
- Zelenskyy meets European leaders on Ukraine security guarantees
- Repairs on Chinese ship in Bajo de Masinloc collision may take 2 months - PH Navy
