No labor rep in rightsizing panel? Workers crying foul
THE coalition of the country’s largest labor group on Sunday slammed the lack of labor representation in the committee, which will implement the proposed government rightsizing.
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THE coalition of the country’s largest labor group on Sunday slammed the lack of labor representation in the committee, which will implement the proposed government rightsizing.
The issuance by Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello of Department Order No. 174 has failed to still the intense agitation of the various trade union groups against what they bitterly call as the “contractualization” of the labor hiring system. A number of the trade union federations are even calling for the resignation of the good Secretary for his alleged failure to heed President Duterte’s election promise to stop “contractualization” within three months of the Duterte Administration.
By Manuel Cayon and Elijah Felice Rosales
NOTABLE, but not enough. This was how political analysts preferred to illustrate President Duterte’s approach in addressing the plight of workers, saying there was effort to resolve labor issues, but it was insufficient.
TO support the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) campaign against all forms of illegal contractualization, Globe Telecom Inc. is talking with its accredited third-party vendor-partners on the regularization of all contractual employees.
THE Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) should not brag about regularizing 45,605 government personnel since the entire country has 24.4 million contractual workers.
Last Friday (April 7), we organized a picket at the very gates of Malacañang, going farther than the traditional protests at the foot of Mendiola Bridge, to ask President Duterte to issue an executive order that would scrap the latest Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) order on contracting, and subcontracting and enact a prohibition against contractualization.
WORKERS, young and old, organized and unorganized, woke up on March 16 and found out that Labor Secretary Silvestre H. Bello III finally issued Department Order (DO) 174, which totally bans labor-only contracting, halting “end of contract regimes” and providing mechanisms to strictly regulate various contractual arrangements. This latest issuance by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) was reached after intensive and heated discussions and consultations with both labor and management sector. The issue is very critical, given that the Philippine Statistics Authority, in a fairly recent survey, advised that more than 1/3 in companies employing 20 people are, in fact, temporary workers.
After nine months of unresolved tripartite debates, Secretary Silvestre Bello issued Department Order 174. The Order has pleased no one.
AN official of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said President Duterte has assured workers that his administration is against contractualization.
The right of workers to security of tenure is guaranteed not just by any law, but by the Constitution no less. Indeed, the Philippines is one of the few countries with a security of tenure provision in its Constitution, as well as in its Labor Code.
The government’s plan to end endo, or contractualization, could lead to layoffs and greater inequality in the country, according to a study released by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS).
Rescued Hacienda Luisita sugar-plantation workers from Mindanao on Wednesday blamed the “contractualization” scheme for the “slavery” that continue to victimize landless farmers in agricultural plantations.
IN 1974 the Labor Code of the Philippines (Presidential Decree 442, as amended, promulgated on May 1, 1974), defined workers simply as “any member of the labor force, whether employed or unemployed” (Book One, Article 12(a)). Book Two, Title II, provided for different kinds of special workers: apprentices, learners and probationary employees.
There appears to be a growing support from several sectors, including former government officials, labor practitioners and academe, on the proposal of the government for a “middle ground” on the issue of whether to completely abolish contractualization, as promised by President Duterte in his election campaign.
By Catherine N. Pillas & David Cagahastian
By David Cagahastian & Catherine N. Pillas
The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) is appealing to the government to settle the issue of illegal contractualization—known as endo—by the end of the year, as foreign investors it has talked to during President Duterte’s visits to China and Japan have raised this as a possible deterrent to future investments.
By Leilani S. Junio / Philippines News Agency
The Philippine Association of Legitimate Service Contractors (Palscon) linked up with other groups with the hopes of sending a united voice to end the illegal-employment practice of “contractualization” or “end of contract,” more popularly known in the country as endo and “5-5-5.”
Labor Undersecretary Joel Maglunsod urged private-sector workers to support and cooperate with the government in eliminating endo and other prohibited labor practices in the country.
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