SENATE Majority Leader Joel Villanueva renewed his call for the government to provide security of tenure by absorbing qualified workers hired under temporary arrangements., This news data comes from:http://ho.gangzhifhm.com
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.
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
- Taiwan, China locked in historical word war
- Marcos suspends importation of regular, well-milled rice for 60 days
- Pope Leo: We must listen first before speaking
- Majority of Filipinos unaware of vote buying in 2025 elections, OCTA survey shows
- Australia's 'mushroom murderer' handed life in prison with parole
- SpaceX scrubs latest Starship launch due to bad weather
- DILG denies claims ex-PNP chief ousted over firearms purchase
- White House fires US health agency head after she refused to quit
- 2 policemen placed under preventive custody for allegedly molesting a female colleague in Marikina
- India to cut taxes on hundreds of consumer goods to boost local demand following steep US tariffs
