PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte promised to end the hiring of contractual workers but lawmakers on Monday claimed that the government itself is implementing the illegal labor practice. “The government is already the biggest user of contractual workers, and the CSC circular further allows government agencies to hire personnel on COSs and JOs until end of 2018,” the lawmaker added. Castro lamented that the CSC circular did not state a commitment to create new positions for these contractual workers. We call on the Duterte administration to fulfill his promise to end contractualization. We urge CSC, COA and DBM to amend the joint circular to ensure that the guidelines will really end endo rather than assure its continued proliferation,” Tinio said.

Source: Manila Times July 10, 2017 16:41 UTC