‘Stop Endo’ campaign gets positive response

CEBU, Philippines - The ongoing orientation conducted by the Department of Labor and Employment as part of the government’s resolve to end abusive practice of contractualization is getting a positive response from various establishments in the hospitality industry.

Representatives of inns, pension houses, resorts, spas, restaurants, and hotels are supportive of President Rodrigo Durterte’s call to stop ENDO.

DOLE-7 Director Exequiel R. Sarcauga said the agency had taken bold steps to end ENDO and respect the rights of every worker to have a security of tenure.

The labor secretary earlier issued an order suspending the registration of new applicants as contractors or subcontractors under Department Order No. 18-A and Labor Advisory No. 10-16 emphasizing the prohibition against labor-only contracting arrangements.

“Labor-Only-Contracting arrangements are prohibited by law. Such practices must be put to an end. In addition, in bilateral arrangements, where workers are hired directly, when there exists a conscious intention of circumventing the law in order not to regularize workers, that too, should be put to an end,” Sarcauga said.

  Sarcauga vowed to support the commitment of the labor secretary to President Rodrigo Duterte of achieving at least 50 percent of the contractual workers in the region regularized before the end of December 2016 and 100 percent regularization of contractual workers before the end of December 2017.

Sarcauga said that such goal would not be made possible without properly orientating and listening to what their partners/stakeholders have to say on the matter.

Sarcauga and his assistant, Joel M. Gonzales, led the DOLE 7-Technical Working Group in conducting the orientation.

At least 75 attended during the most recent orientation in Metro Cebu. (FREEMAN)