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By: Resel Joy Tianero
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ILOILO City – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in Region 6 is targeting to regularize 50 percent of workers in Western Visayas by December 2016, said DOLE officer-in-charge regional director Salome O. Siaton.
This is line with President Rodrigo Duterte’s urgent call to abolish endo (end of contract), Siaton added.
Endo is the illegal practice of terminating a worker before he reaches six months of employment to avoid regularization and the benefits that go with it.
Data from DOLE showed that as of Oct. 14 this year, there are 1,692 workers in the region affected by contractualization.
According to Siaton, the company that practices endo shall be given a due process to conduct a joint assessment of labor loss compliance officers. If there are violations in the working arrangements, the employers will be called by DOLE to discuss compliance orders.
DOLE-6 will first target workers in malls, manufacturing companies, hotels, restaurants hospitals and food chains, Siaton disclosed.
The DOLE-6 chief furthermore urged employees to report companies that practice contractualization.
“They [employees] can make a report and pass it to the National Relations Commission kag ireklamo ang employer nga wala naga-comply kag nagapatuman gihapon sang contractual services,” said Siation.
In the Philippines, it is mandated by the law that after six months of working for a company, an employee automatically becomes regularized.
Article 281 of the Labor Code says “Probationary employment shall not exceed six (6) months from the date the employee started working, unless it is covered by an apprenticeship agreement stipulating a longer period. The services of an employee who has been engaged on a probationary basis may be terminated for a just cause or when he fails to qualify as a regular employee in accordance with reasonable standards made known by the employer to the employee at the time of his engagement. An employee who is allowed to work after a probationary period shall be considered a regular employee.”/PN
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