In Philippine English, JO (job order) refers to a government employee hired on a contract or job-order basis rather than as a permanent civil servant. JO workers are common in Philippine government offices — they do the same work as regular employees but receive fewer benefits, no job security, and are technically not employees of the government. The term is a fixture of Philippine bureaucratic and labor vocabulary.
She'd been working as a JO in the agency for three years and still hadn't been regularized.
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(Philippines) A job order employee.
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