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After 20 years, 53 Pasig city hall workers awarded regular status

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/news/01/22/vico.jpg"/><figcaption>Pasig Mayor Vico Sotto says it&#x27;s important for city hall workers to have security and dignity of labor.<em> George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News/file</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA—Pasig Mayor Vico Sotto on Tuesday said he has given 53 city workers full-time employment status.</p><p>&quot;Nu&#x27;ng kampanya, sinabi natin na dapat ilayo ang mga ordinaryong kawani ng pamahalaan sa politika. Dati lagi silang tinatakot na makikita kung sino ang binoboto nila at di na sila ire-renew kapag du&#x27;n sila sa &#x27;kalaban&#x27;,&quot; Sotto wrote on Facebook.</p><p>&quot;Ngayon wala nang ganitong takutan. Nagsimula na rin tayo sa regularisasyon ng mga kawani nating kwalipikado, para sa seguridad at dignidad sa trabaho.&quot;</p><script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.5" async="" type="text/javascript"></script><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/VicoSotto/photos/a.977354865656525/2816867758371884/?type=3&amp;theater" data-width="auto"> </div><p>The 53 workers have held jobs at city hall for more than 20 years.</p><script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.5" async="" type="text/javascript"></script><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/iskomorenodomagoso/photos/pcb.2652196474849779/2652190341517059/?type=3&amp;theater" data-width="auto"> </div><p>Meanwhile, Manila Mayor Isko Moreno rewarded a city employee with a smartphone and a house.</p><p>The worker, whom Moreno only identified as Melchor, has been working at city hall for 33 years.</p><p>Melchor sleeps at city hall on weekdays and only goes home to Cavite on weekends.</p><p>&quot;Bilang pagkilala sa kanyang inialay na serbisyo sa lungsod, ginawaran natin siya hindi lang ng smartphone pati na rin pabahay para sa kanyang pamilya,&quot; Moreno wrote in his post.</p>

<p>The 53 "regularized" workers had held contractual jobs at Pasig city hall for more than 20 years.</p>

The 53 "regularized" workers had held contractual jobs at Pasig city hall for more than 20 years.