The labor department will remain relentless in uplifting the quality of life of every Filipino

worker and their families by strengthening our employment facilitation services and
enhancing our social protection programs for our workers. We are also consistent in
pushing for the passage of the security of tenure bill to stop all forms of abusive
employment practices that continue to immerse our workers in a quagmire of poverty
and underemployment. (Bello, 2019)

https://www.dole.gov.ph/news/ph-employment-situation-improved/

http://www.congress.gov.ph/legisdocs/basic_17/HB04444.pdf(THINK
MAKAKATULONG TO MIGHT AS WELL IKAW TUMINGIN JUNI IDK HOW TO CITATE
THIS)

The Senate version of the End Endo Bill did not completely prohibit job contracting, an
arrangement where an employer, known as the principal, farms out jobs to a third-party
contractor who then hires workers of its own. Various stakeholders had expressed their
concern that removing "endo," without making it clear that “legitimate contractualization”
will remain, might make the country less competitive. (Philstar, 2019)

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2019/05/23/1920293/security-tenure-bill-not-quite-
end-endo-labor-groups-say

Endo has a huge negative impact on Filipinos’ lives. Through this unjust practice,
companies refrain from regularizing their workers who have been employed for six
months or longer. Aside from not receiving due compensation, they are deprived of the
benefits enjoyed by full-time employees such as paid leaves, 13th month pay, and
government mandated SSS, Philhealth, and Pag-IBIG coverage, among other
mandatory requirements. Minimum wage earners and student workers are the ones
who are often victimized by this unfair labor practice. ( Asiapro, 2017)
http://asiapro.coop/blog/endo-in-the-philippines/

Senate Bill No. 1826 sponsored by Senator Joel Villanueva which would strengthen the
rights of the workers to security of tenure is pending its deliberation at the Senate
Committee on Labor and Employment and Human Resource Development. The Bill
started out by giving a definition of what constitutes Labor-Only Contracting but failed to
state what constitutes legitimate job contracting. ECOP proposed that the definition of
legitimate job “contracting” under D.O. 174 be included before expressly providing for
prohibited acts which constitute Labor-Only Contracting. (ECOP, 2018)
http://ecop.org.ph/senate-bill-on-security-of-tenure-and-end-of-endo-act-of-2018/

The regular employee enjoys many entitlements that represent costs to the firm beyond
the calculation of the regular wage as provided in the labor laws. The benefits going to
regular employees begin to escalate in relation to what might be considered the
competitive wage rate – the rate at which many laborers are willing to enter
employment. In time, this led to the idea of temporary – in contrast to regular –
employees. These employees could be hired at the going minimum wage – already
loaded with mandated wage rates and other wage entitlements – but not for the usual
benefits of regular employees. This led to the increasing phenomenon of casual
employment as a major presence in the industrial and government labor market (Sicat,
2007).

http://cpbrd.congress.gov.ph/cpbrd.congress.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&vi
ew=article&layout=edit&id=789

Contractualization has violated workers’ rights to organize and collectively bargain for
higher wages, economic benefits, social security, better terms of employment, and
better work conditions. It has also forced workers into accepting unfair labor practices
and violations of their political rights. This points to the urgency of real measures by the
government to not merely regulate contractualization but end the practice in all its
forms. This is one among many reforms needed alongside a strategic plan for national
industrialization, which is crucial in creating stable jobs for the Filipino people. (IBON
facts & figures, April 2017)

https://www.ibon.org/contractualization-prevails-ibon-facts-figures-excerpt/