The ball is now in the court of Congress to decide the fate of “endo” (end of contract), Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero said on Wednesday. Labor groups said the EO offered nothing new and left millions of endo workers without benefits. “What is new is the political will of the President to end contractualization,” he told dzMM radio. Although Malacañang could by itself have ended the practice of endo, “it instead opted to let Congress set the direction,” Escudero said in a television interview. Escudero noted that while the Labor Code had gone through a number of amendments in Congress, the provision on contractualization had not yet been touched.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 02, 2018 23:03 UTC