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Around 22, 699 workers were regularized by 246
establishments from different parts of Central Luzon, this is according to the
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) regional office in San Fernando,
Pampanga.
DOLE Regional Director Ana Dione said that regional office’s
latest scorecard in reducing the contractual employees covers the last few
months of 2016 and the whole year of 2017.
According to Dione, DOLE remains focused in carrying out
orders in line to its commitment to President Rodrigo Duterte’s directive to
eliminate illegal forms of contracting employees, ‘endo,’ labor-only contracting, and other similar arrangements.
Among the numbers of regularized employees, around 12,689
workers were regularized in 2017 by some establishments under the encouragement
of DOLE regional offices and its branches.
While other remaining workers were regularized by 105 firms
upon the assumption of president Duterte’s administration.
Dione disclosed that DOLE had 24 labor laws compliance
offices to conduct assessments of establishments, principals, and contractors
to determine their compliance to the General Labor Standards (GLS), Occupational
Safety and Health (OSH), and also to determine which companies or groups violated
the standards.
Firms were subjected to mandatory conferences and were
assisted in complying to GLS and OSH standards.
DOLE also thanked the complying establishments, and urged
more firms to do the same in giving efforts to regularize their employees.
"We are hoping that more establishments will also
realize the benefits of regularizing their workers, who are deemed necessary in
their day to day operations," Dione said.
If recalled, President Duterte was previously hit by group
led by Renato Reyes over broken promises.
“Under his administration, regularization has already
happened: It is now regular to kill drug suspects, regular to sabotage peace
talks, regular to militarize, and regular to spread fake news and
disinformation,” Reyes once said.
source: PNA
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