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://ycyzqzxyh.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.
Villanueva: Regularize contractual govt workers
- 95 IMAGES OF MARY
- DPWH opens foreign-assisted projects to LGUs
- PH economic losses hit 100B from corruption in flood control projects
- Earthquake kills 250, injures 500 in Afghanistan
- Xi and Putin's hot mic moment: How long will science extend the human life span?
- New law lets foreigner investors lease land for 99 years
- Pagasa monitors LPA off Cavite, may still become tropical depression
- Makati distributes Blu Card cash aid
- Modi and Putin affirm special relationship as India faces steep US tariffs over Russian oil imports
- Marcos halts flood control budget; new commission to investigate expected 'in 48 hours'
