One of the most sensitive issues that President-elect Duterte will be facing from the very moment that he sits down as the country’s 16th President is the continued existence or demise of job contractualization.
There have been many attempts to abolish this antagonistic labor scheme, but it remained n effect until now.
The outgoing administration has not given importance to this supposed anti-poor policy of employment that may be both beneficial and otherwise to stakeholders and labor matters.
The abolishment of “Endo” (End of contract) is a campaign promise of the President-elect Rodrigo Duterte which is believed to create various repercussions to the economy of the country. Many labors especially proletariat sees endo as a way of the capitalist to exploit and manipulate the laborer’s vulnerability.
Yesterday the incoming Department of Labor and Employment Secretary Silvestre Bello III told media in Davao City that the incoming administration will not allow companies to employ more than 10% of the workforce under the scheme of contractualization.
“Nasa batas na ‘yan, and it’s just a matter of implementing the law. Kailangan ng strict but equitable implementation of the law,”Bello told in a report.
On June 21, 2016, Militant group executed a protest outside the DOLE office in Intramuros, Manila, challenging the President-elect Duterte to end contractualization as he promised it in most of his campaign rallies.
The protesters were Anakbayan, Kilusang Mayo Uno and National Union of Students of the Philippines who also burned an image of the outgoing President Benigno Aquino III, whom they accused of turning a blind eye on the “worsening labor crisis” in the country.
In a report by ABS-CBN’s Bandila, the incoming administration is very serious to end the system “endo,” and the Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) supported it.
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