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, This news data comes from:http://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.
- More funding sought for sports commission
- Trump to blacklist countries for imprisoning Americans
- Pagasa: Trough of LPA, 'habagat' will bring rain, thunderstorms across PH
- In Taiwan, competing narratives over the meaning of China's massive military show
- DPWH seeks lookout bulletin vs officials, contractors in ghost projects
- House suspends DPWH budget deliberations pending submission of changes by agency, DBM
- House bill seeks to regulate AI use
- Rep. Tiangco reveals P17B flood control allocations linked to former appropriations chairman Rep. Zaldy Co
- Marcos orders 'sweeping review' of DPWH budget under 2026 NEP
- Marcos soon to create commission to probe flood control projects
