ALAM n’yo ba na more than 90% of employees serving the poor Filipinos through the Department of Social Welfare and Development are not regular workers?
Imagine, the government’s prime frontline agency’s workers are not regular workers themselves; no security of tenure. And yet they are tasked to provide programs to improve the living condition of disadvantaged Filipinos.
The DSWD has:
13,252 contractuals;
12,326 contract of service employees;
878 job order and;
only 2,993 regular workers servicing 65 million poor Filipinos.
It’s odd to have government workers serving the poorest of the poor are themselves have no security of tenure, no regular workers’ benefits.
That is why most of them, after having perfected the job and gained wisdom in the course of performing their work, are either being pirated by private companies or have decided to work for non-government organizations for higher wages and better benefits.
In the long run, quality public service to the poorest of the poor suffers.
The Civil Service Commission and the Department of Budget Management should seriously begin the regularization of most employees of the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
To address this matter, there is a plan to hire and outsource these short-term workers thru manpower agencies just like the prevalent practice of private companies who outsource workers through manpower agencies, labor service providers and manpower cooperatives.
Under the existing arrangement and planned outsourcing of employees thru labor service providers, quality of services to poor Filipinos is expected to deteriorate even further.
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