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://ofut.771bg.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
- Read to reduce sentence, Uzbekistan tells prisoners
- Thai opposition holds kingmaking summit deciding new PM
- 9 dead in Ecuador after bus plunges into ravine
- Recto: No exemption for US tech firms from digital tax
- Heavy rain falls in parts of Southeast Asia after tropical storm blows into Vietnam Heavy rain falls in parts of Southeast Asia after tropical storm blows into Vietnam
- UN food agency chief says women and children are starving in Gaza and pressed Netanyahu on aid
- Inflation up 1.5% in August
- Trough of LPA, ‘habagat’ will bring rain showers, thunderstorms across PH
- DICT grants amnesty to unregistered delivery firms
- Former president Duterte's health stable despite high blood sugar, says VP Sara
