PASAY CITY, Philippines — Senate President Vicente Sotto III said he received a letter from President Rodrigo Duterte dated September 21 urging the “immediate enactment” of Senate Bill No. 1826 or the Security of Tenure Bill and End of Endo Act of 2018.
Senator Joel Villanueva, chairperson of the Senate committee on labor, employment, and human resources development, lauded President Rodrigo Duterte’s certification of the Security of Tenure Bill as urgent.
He said the practice of contractualization affects more than 1.9 million workers in the private sector. Overall, about three out of 10 Filipino workers are not regular and one out of two non-regular workers are contractual.
Once passed into law, the measure would remove ambiguities in the Labor Code, which is the source of circumventions, and: (a) prohibit labor-only contracting, and provide penalties for violation (b) limit job contracting to licensed and specialized services, (c) classify workers into regular and probationary employees–and treat project and seasonal employees as regular employees, (d) provide security of tenure, (e) clarify standards on probationary employment, and (f) provide “Transition Support Program” for employees while they are not at work or transitioning in between jobs.
The senator added that giving the country’s workers certainty and social protection makes them more efficient and more productive.
Villanueva stressed that, “We certainly need a law that will not only uphold our workers’ basic labor rights and restore dignity of work, but also a law that will promote quality employment without jeopardizing business operations but rather create more stable jobs for every Filipino.” — UNTV News & Rescue
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