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Understanding Contractualization in the Philippines

Contractualization has become a widespread practice in the Philippines covering millions of workers. It violates workers' rights to organize, bargain collectively, and strike. Contractual workers lack social security benefits, healthcare, housing funds, and job security. This precarious work offers laborers no hope or future. Contractualization is inherently exploitative as it undermines core labor standards and denies workers the right to a decent life. Both President Duterte and the Department of Labor and Employment are committed to ending contractualization by providing contractual workers regular employment status and benefits.

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Understanding Contractualization in the Philippines

Contractualization has become a widespread practice in the Philippines covering millions of workers. It violates workers' rights to organize, bargain collectively, and strike. Contractual workers lack social security benefits, healthcare, housing funds, and job security. This precarious work offers laborers no hope or future. Contractualization is inherently exploitative as it undermines core labor standards and denies workers the right to a decent life. Both President Duterte and the Department of Labor and Employment are committed to ending contractualization by providing contractual workers regular employment status and benefits.

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  • Introduction

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INTRODUCTION

What is Contractualization issue? Since the passage of the labor code in 1974 which
allowed contracting and subcontracting. Regulation has failed to protect the workers to
abuse and explotation. Contractualization has become a widespread practice covering
million of workers. It was led to violention of workers' right to organize, to bargain
collectively and to strike. Contractualization has created a pool of workers who have no
social security,no health care,no access to pag-IBIG and no Security of Tenure. This is
work offering the laborer no hope and no future. This is precarious work and has no
place in a decent society. Contractualization is inherently exploitative,it dilutes the core
labor standards and undetermines the workers' right to a decent life. It limits the choices
of workers to freely shape their own future.(introduce by TUCP Party-List, Nov. 16
2016)

Is an issue we face in our country most of all is the employees that have a short
term contract in a companys have a 4–6 months maximum before end of their contact
and also the contractual workers don't get a benifits like Philhealth,SSS and pag-ibig
fund, compare to a regular employees that get all their benifits from the companies
because that we know it also a work that can get a same paid unlike a contractual are
not getting paid in full.

Contractualizaton is a term not found in the Labor Code and not even in the rules
and regulations issued by DOLE. Contractualization therefore has no official or standard
definition. The loud public talk to ban contractualization suggests the need to be clear
about its different meanings. One meaning is “endo” or end of contract. The other is
“deceptive contractorship”. Both are difficult to handle because a wrong action against
them can harm business. And what harms business ultimately harms labor by way of
withheld investments and decreased job opportunities.“Endo” is an abusive or corrupted
use of the law. But hiring of employees on temporary basis is not altogether illegal
where such kind of hiring is really needed by the business. The law allows employment
in a project with pre-agreed termination date as well as seasonal employment, and
fixed-period employment. Even the hiring of temporary replacements of striking
employees is allowed.(By: Atty. Ces Alvero Azucena Jr. 12:05 AM September 18, 2016)

MANILA — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) remains steadfast


on the commitment of President Rodrigo Duterte to end contractualization by providing
contractual workers regular status in their jobs.(by Ferdinand patinio,August 1, 2019,
7:23 pm).

President Duterte say that he want to abolished contractualization issue because he a


contractual workers to become a regular employees because it has a negative effect on
the government and also to company and most of all to the workers and our president
have an statements to stop contractuallizatoin to all big business to end contractual

and also he tell about the payment of a work get a fully paid because this is not good
in our country.

Contractualization is one of the source of high unemployment rate because if the


worker end their contact and have no benefits and doesn't earn a payment like a
regular employees and the work become lazy or don't find any jobs but in other side the
contractualization is the bandage to lesser the number of unemployment in our country
and to give a work to support a poor people less more crime in our country.

|. INTRODUCTION What is Contractualization issue? Since the passage of the labor code in 1974 which allowed contracting
the government and also to company and most of all to the workers and our president have an statements to stop contractualli

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