The national government, as the country’s biggest employer, should celebrate Labor Day with a mass regularization of casual workers who have been in its employ for years, if not decades, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said.
“It can begin with contractual workers in government hospitals. Not only medical staff, but essential workers like attendants, cleaning and sanitation personnel, equipment technicians–without whom no hospital can exist,” he said.
“The are many civil servants who work on the basis of one short-term contract to another. Hindi na e-endo. Hindi rin naman nape-permanent. They languish in the bureaucracy’s version of purgatory,” Recto said.
It is high time for government to “open a pathway” to regular employment for the thousands of casuals who may be eligible for jobs which carry security of tenure, he said.
“Let us begin with the most deserving. It should be a regularization based on merit,” he said.
To get the ball rolling, Recto said the President can issue a policy announcement on May 1.
“Siguro kahit promise lang mula sa Pangulo para masimulan ang proseso, malaking hakbang na,” he said.
Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)
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