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(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, May 1, reminded businesses of their “shared responsibility in improving the lives of our workers by providing them stable career opportunities and humane working conditions.” The President issued the reminder in his Labor Day message, as he extolled the Filipino worker, whose “hard work serves as the very foundation of our nation’s prosperity and growth.” “As all work is vital in forging a more inclusive and more progressive Philippines, […]
(Eagle News)–Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III on Saturday, Oct. 13, expressed support for the Senate’s version of thr Security of Tenure Bill, which President Rodrigo Duterte has certified as urgent. In a radio interview, Bello said the bill, after all, provides “more remedies” in cases where employers circumvent provisions in the Labor Code at the expense of their employees. Duterte has vowed to put an end to contractualization, but noted that the ball was in […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte has certified the Senate’s anti-contractualization bill as urgent. The certification of Senate Bill No. 1826 was contained in a letter the President wrote to Senate President Tito Sotto dated September 21. “We laud the move of the President certifying our Security of Tenure Bill as a priority measure. It is important that we pass this into law to finally put an end to work schemes like ‘endo’ and labor-only contracting,” Senator Joel […]
(Eagle News) — The Employer’s Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) vowed to help the Department of Labor and Employment in its campaign to end contractualization in the country. In fact, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said “we are now in possession of a proposed memorandum understanding submitted by ECOP.” “Pagka tatanggapin ang MOU na ito ay maaaring magkaroon ng paglalagda and this will result in the regularization of 300,000 contractual workers,” Bello said in a phone […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is planning to file a motion for reconsideration before the Court of Appeals to appeal its decision regarding the department order directing telecommunications giant PLDT Inc, to regularize 7,344 workers hired from third party contractors. Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said that he had asked Labor Undersecretary Joel Maglunsod to look into the matter since the affected workers had already expressed fears that the CA […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, July 23, renewed his call for Congress to pass a measure that would end contractualization “once and for all.” He said this as he reiterated the power to end the same was not vested in him. “Much as I would like to do the impossible, that power is not vested upon me by the Constitution and neither will I make both ends meet if I violate the […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, May 2, said the signing of an executive order that addresses illegal contracting and subcontracting was the best he could do within the bounds of the law. Speaking during the distribution of land titles to farmers in Quezon, President Duterte said this was because the Labor Code allows for some forms of contractualization. Militant labor groups have called for a ban on all forms of contractualization. The power to […]
(Eagle News) – “Your days are numbered.” President Rodrigo Duterte said this as he ordered the Department of Labor and Employment to submit to him a list of all employers and companies engaged in illegal contractualization and sub-contracting, more popularly known as “endo.” He warned these companies and businesses which are circumventing labor laws through the so-called “endo” or “end of contract system” that government would go after them. “I also directed DOLE to […]
(Eagle News) –President Rodrigo Duterte signed an executive order stopping illegal contractualization, more popularly known as “endo,”including sub-contracting of workers, fulfilling a campaign promise to stop contractualization, and at the same time called on Congress to revise the existing Labor Code. Speaking during Labor Day celebrations in Cebu City, Duterte said the E.O. he had signed was what he could do, but stressed that this was “not enough.” “Well, I hope that with all that […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday, April 28, said former Labor Undersecretary Dominador Say lied when he said he resigned from the Department of Labor and Employment to spare the agency from any “pro-management” criticisms. In a speech before the Filipino community in Singapore, Duterte said it was he who told Say to resign after he received a complaint from a recruiter from DOLE. “Ang problema nito, kay Say, is he hoisted a […]
“Sisiguraduhin ni Presidente na wala talagang 5-5-5 at cabo,” Presidential Spokesperson Roque says (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III to submit an inventory of companies involved in “labor-only contracting.” According to the memorandum shown to reporters on Friday, April 20, the “comprehensive report on the implementation of DOLE Department Order Nos 174 and 183 Is 2017, including violations thereof and a list of companies engaged and/or suspected to […]
(Eagle News) – While he welcomed President Rodrigo Duterte’s plan to certify as urgent a Senate bill that proposes an end to contractualization, Senator Joel Villanueva said that an executive order (EO) was necessary to craft a useful and effective law addressing “endo.” According to Villanueva, who authored Senate Bill 1116, the President’s EO will “provide the framework and guidance for the implementation of a national policy on contractualization.” Filed by Villanueva in September 2016, […]
