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: 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.
”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.
- Social pension eyed for indigent seniors
- Motive probed for US church shooting that killed 2 children, injured 17
- Madagascar welcomes home skulls of Indigenous warriors taken by French colonial troops 128 years ago
- Thai court dismisses prime minister over compromising phone call with Cambodian leader
- Palace hits Discayas over ‘misinformation’ on PH film center project
- India to probe giant zoo run by son of Asia's richest person
- GoTyme gives customers 20 free InstaPay transfers per month
- Philippine experts urge harm reduction strategy for tobacco control
- COA probes Iqbal on spending of P1.7B in one day
- House panel defers 2026 DPWH budget until agency submit changes
