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Wednesday, January 4, 2017
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No end to ‘endo’
MASSIVE protests are in order this year. Discussions on “endo” (end of contract) or labor contractualization are getting more interesting. Labor groups are accusing the Duterte administration of not keeping its promise to totally “end endo.”
The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has come out with a strong and pro-worker recommendation and challenges the government to implement the following in its concluding observations on the combined fifth and sixth periodic report of the Philippines:
1. put an end to the “endo” system
2. strengthen the monitoring of employers, and
3. review the Wage Rationalization Act of 1989 with a view to reinstating the national minimum wage to ensure an adequate standard of living to workers and their families.
These recommendations reflect the long-standing demand of Filipino workers to stop contractualization, scrap Herrera Law and to implement a national minimum wage P750/day for private sector and P1,6000 for public sector, as well as the abolition of two-tiered wage system implemented during the Aquino administration.
It is a fact that contractualization of workers for periods of five months, which the Herrera Law of 1989 (Republic Act 6715) legitimized, is rampant across all economic sectors. This increases the number of workers under short-term contracts and with lower levels of protection. This also results to labor exploitation (pay below the minimum wage, long working hours, and unsafe and unhealthy working conditions).
With the government hedging on its “end endo” promise, this year labor groups are expected to continue their struggle against contractualization. The bottom line is to ensure that all workers enjoy safe and healthy working conditions and are protected from occupational accidents, exploitation and abuse.
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