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.
Villanueva: Regularize contractual govt workers
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.
Villanueva: Regularize contractual govt workers
”Despite raising this concern every year for the past nine years, this practice is still ongoing,” Villanueva said., This news data comes from:http://crn-vw-hm-ca.052298.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.
- Drug war whistleblower Royina Garma returns to PH after US detention
- Govt debt swells to record P17.58T
- DPWH fires Bulacan engineers, blacklists contractors over anomalous projects
- Putin vows not to back down in Ukraine
- MMDA asks LTO to sanction motorist in altercation with traffic enforcer in San Juan
- Lone bettor wins P86M in 6/42 lotto draw for Sept 6
- Jollibee, DepEd partner to develop quick service restaurant curriculum for senior high
- Plea written in blood saves Chinese woman trapped in locked room
- Malacañang hits back at VP Duterte's criticism on flood scam probe
- Sen. Hontiveros pushes for Philippine Geriatric Center to aid seniors
