Government contract of service (COS) and job order (JO) workers whose contracts would expire in December this year no longer have to worry about their employment after President Marcos extended their contracts. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Noel Pabalate) Marcos made this decision...
Land Transportation Office (LTO) chief Vigor Mendoza II has committed to address contractualization amid the prevalence of job order mode of employment in one of the high-earning agencies of the government. In pushing for the stop of Job Order at the LTO, Mendoza said he wants to ensure security of...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has expressed its full support to the consolidation and passage into law of two Senate bills which seek to address the issue on workers' contractualization "not only to protect the laborers' rights but also to ensure that businesses will thrive." "The need to...
Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva on Sunday, April 30 called on the government to thoroughly study the measures that seek to determine the reasonable living wage for the country’s workers. Villanueva made the call ahead of the nation’s Labor Day activities on Monday, May 1. ...
House Deputy Speaker and Batangas 6th district Rep. Ralph Recto has identified the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) as the agency that has the “the lowest regular staff-to-clientele ratio in the entire bureaucracy". Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto (Facebook) Figures cited by Recto...
Gabriela Women’s Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas led fellow members of the Makabayan bloc in filing a House bill (HB) with the goal of ending the contractualization or “endo” (end of contract) workers. (Photo from Gabriela Women's Party-list Facebook) Brosas, alongside ACT Teachers Party-list...
(JANSEN ROMERO/MANILA BULLETIN) A group of medical workers has called on the government to increase the salary and improve the working conditions of the country’s health workers. The Alliance of Healthcare Workers (AHW) made the statement in time for the observance of the National Health Workers...
Senator Christopher "Bong" Go has vowed to pursue a measure that would end the practice of short-term employment in the country, but one that would balance the needs of the employees and the employers. Go pointed out that President Duterte was forced to veto the proposed anti-contractualization law...
President Duterte is still committed to eradicate abusive work arrangements and protect the workers' rights to security of tenure, Malacañang said on Thursday, April 7. (MANILA BULLETIN File Photo/Mark Balmores) This, after vice-presidential bet Senate President Vicente Sotto III criticized...
Presidential candidate Panfilo ‘Ping’ Lacson maintained his position that he is generally in favor of ending the practice of contractualization in the country. The Partido Reporma standard-bearer, however, wants to balance competing interests on this matter, so that one side would not be put at...
Vice President Leni Robredo said on Wednesday, March 2, she will certify the Security Tenure Bill that would stop the practice of labor contractualization, or “endo”, as urgent if she wins the presidency. Vice President Leni Robredo (VPLR Media Bureau) During the Catholic E-Forum on Radyo...
Copying one of President Duterte's campaign promises, presidential candidate Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said he will address "endo" or the system of contractualization in the country if and when he gets elected to Malacañang in May. Presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos (Lakas-CMD Media)...
