MANILA, Philippines — Almost half a million workers employed under the illegal end-of-contract or “endo” scheme are now enjoying regular employment status, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported yesterday. More than half or 65 percent of those regularized, Bello said, was a result of voluntary compliance on the part of the employers. According to Bello, they expect more contractual workers to be regularized since many commercial establishments have already expressed their intention to voluntarily regularize workers. Bello further noted that the Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) also committed to regularize 300,000 contractual workers. Though almost 500,000 have already have been regularized, Bello admitted that a large number of workers nationwide are still employed under illegal forms of contractualization.

Source: Philippine Star December 19, 2018 16:03 UTC