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BY TIFFANY ANNE TAN
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BACOLOD City – A labor organization in Negros Occidental believes the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is only “regulating” the “end of contract,” or “endo,” practice among employers.
The General Alliance of Workers Association (GAWA), among other groups in the labor sector, has been calling for the abolition of “endo,” or the firing of employees before the six-month probationary period ends.
It specifically called out the DOLE’s “proposal for a trilateral agreement…particularly on designating agencies as employers.”
Winnie Sancho, secretary-general for the GAWA, said this is “inimical to the workers’ security of tenure.”
“What will happen if the contract with the principal is terminated? It will surely displace workers,” Sancho stressed. “The demand is for endo to be abolished, not regulated by the DOLE.”
If finalized and implemented, the DOLE order “would further encourage the proliferation of [endo] instead of stopping it,” he said.
“This scheme will provide the employers means to circumvent the law by reclassifying the workers as project and seasonal workers even if their work is necessary and desirable to the company,” Sancho said. “The draft order is totally unacceptable to the labor sector.”
The Department Order No. 30, which Labor secretary Silvestre Bello III is set to release on Dec. 28, is expected to call for a strict implementation of the law on contractualization./PN
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