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: Regularize contractual govt workers
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://052298.com
”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.
- Arjo Atayde, Vice Ganda, Marian Rivera win top acting honors at 73rd FAMAS Awards
- No peace without end to hostilities –Arab bloc
- 2028 polls overseas voter registration opens in Dec
- International media protest over journalist deaths in Gaza
- Customs finds only 2 luxury cars at contractor's compound in Pasig
- Xi and Putin reaffirm 'old friend' ties in the face of US challenges
- 2 Marikina policemen accused of molestation
- National Guard troops begin carrying weapons in US capital
- Supreme Court urged to act on fake complaints
- Public Works chief to press criminal charges against Bulacan engineer
