PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte said he is having a hard time ending endo immediately, adding that a compromise is the most feasible solution for the calls of labor groups to end contractualization. Malacañang spokesman Harry Roque, in a news briefing on Tuesday morning, said a possible compromise is cooking but he declined to elaborate. Terminating contractualization was one of the promises made by Duterte during the campaign period in 2016. The order, however, was met with criticism from different labor groups because it still allowed certain types of contractualization. Last year, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello 3rd said what Duterte meant by “terminating contractualization” was banning “unlawful, illegitimate contractualization.”

Source: Manila Times February 27, 2018 16:07 UTC