Keeping the middleman: Labor group raps EO vs 'endo'

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Keeping the middleman: Labor group raps EO vs 'endo'

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MANILA - The executive order signed by President Rodrigo Duterte to end the practice of "endo" or end of contract will not stop illegal contractualization, a labor group said Tuesday, as workers celebrate Labor Day.

Alan Tanjusay, spokesperson of the Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (ALU-TUCP), said Duterte's EO failed to eliminate manpower agencies and to define the employee-employer relationship that constitutes "direct hiring."

"Ang implication nito, direct hiring 'yung mga manggagawa sa manpower service providers. Walang relationship ang manggagawa sa may-ari ng negosyo," he told DZMM, stressing that employees should be directly hired by the company, not by a "middleman."

He accused Duterte of signing an executive order drafted by the business sector.

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"At the end of the day, version pa rin pala ng mga negosyante ang inadopt ng Pangulo. We are frustrated. We are dismayed," he said.

The Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP), meanwhile, said they find some provisions of the EO very strict and may be prone to abuse. But the group said they will try to live with it.

Serio Ortiz Luis, honorary chairman and governor of the ECOP, also defended sub-contracting as it is allowed by law. This practice, he added, exists in other countries.

"Ang sinasabi naman ni Presidente, hindi naman puwedeng i-eliminate completely ang sub-contracting. It's allowed by the law," he told DZMM.

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