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Seventeenth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No._ 3465

Introduced by Honorable Geraldine B. Roman

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Civil Service Commission reported that nearly 128,000 contractital
or non-permanent government employees help run our bureaucracy. A great
majority of them have been in the civil service for years, yet they do not enjoy
the security of tenure of a permanent government employee because of
contractualization.

Under this scheme, contractual employees are allowed to suffer work on
repeated cycles, thus, depriving them of the full benefits that they should have
been receiving had they been appointed to permanent positions. Also, whenever
there are vacancies in government positions, new applicants are sometimes
considered over active contractual employees who are equally qualified and
have been faithfully serving the agency or office for years.

This bill seeks to empower contractual government employees who
possess appropriate eligibilities and qualifications and have continuously and
satisfactorily rendered service to the government for at least one (1) year by
institutionalizing prior consideration of their appointment to permanent
positions before the agency looks for applicants with the same qualifications
from outside the agency or office, All things being equal, preferential
consideration must be given to qualified contractual employees over new
applicants.

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While we are espousing the minimization and gradual abolition of
contractualization in the private sector, the same protection must also be given
to our contractual government employees who have, through the years, acquired
the experience and expertise, and have shown dedication to public service.

In view of the foregoing, approval of this bill is earnestly sought.

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GERALDINE B. ROMAN


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Hause of Representatives :
Quezon City, Metra Manila 3

Seventeenth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. _ 3465

Introduced by Honorable Geraldine B. Roman

AN ACT
MANDATING ALL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, OFFICES AND
INSTRUMENTALITIES TO EVALUATE AND CONSIDER QUALIFIED
CONTRACTUAL WORKERS FOR APPOINTMENT TO PERMANENT
POSITIONS

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. All branches, subdivisions, instrumentalities, and agencies
of the goverhment, including government-owned or -controlled corporations
with original charters are hereby mandated to give preferential consideration to
the permanent appointment of qualified contractual employees in their
respective agency, office or instrumentality who have rendered at least one (1)
year of continuous and effective government service, before considering new
applicants for the permanent position from outside their agency, office, unit or
instrumentality.

For the purpose of this Act, permanent appointment or permanent '
position refers to a career service position or a government post that requires.

entrance based on merit and fitness, competitive career service examination

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administered by the Civil Service Commission, and in appropriate cases, highly
technical qualifications.

Contractual employees refer to those whose employment in the
government is in accordance with a special contract to undertake a specific
work or job, requiring special or technical skills not available in the employing
agency, to be accomplished within a specific period, which in no case shall
exceed one (1) year, and perform or accomplish the specific work or job, under
the employee’s, own responsibility with minimum direction and supervision
from the hiring agency.

SEC. 2. The preferential consideration to contractual employees
mandated by this Act shall apply only when both the contractual employee and
the new applicant possess the minimum qualifications, eligibilities and skills for
the permanent position to be filled up.

SEC. 3. The Civil Service Commission shall, within sixty (60) days from
effectivity of this Act, promulgate necessary rules and regulations for the
implementation of this Act.

SEC. 4. All laws, decrees, issuances, and implementing rules and
regulations inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed or modified
accordingly.

SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in
the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,