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.
”Despite raising this concern every year for the past nine years, this practice is still ongoing,” Villanueva said.
Villanueva: Regularize contractual govt workers, This news data comes from:http://gyglfs.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.
- US appeals court blocks Trump's use of wartime law for deportations
- Filipino member of AHOF K-pop group says Manila concert a dream come true
- Islamic State claims deadly attack on Pakistan rally
- DoTr seeks higher budget for 2026, requests P531B amid cuts
- MMDA prepares for PH hosting of FIVB
- Vietnam evacuates thousands ahead of Typhoon Kajiki
- India to probe giant zoo run by son of Asia's richest person
- China's Xi holds talks with North Korea's Kim in Beijing
- Japan govt seeks to triple spending on drones
- House probe tackles flood control corruption: Lawmakers disclose conflicts of interest
