END ENDO NOW

Izobelle T. Pulgo, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Victor Anthony V. Silva 05/01/2017

LABOR GROUPS’ CALL Almost one year since President Rodrigo Duterte was elected to the country’s highest public office, workers are still clamoring for the fulfillment of the executive’s campaign promise to end all forms of labor contractualization.…

Labor union reiterates call against ‘endo’

Victor Anthony V. Silva 05/01/2017

Almost one year since President Rodrigo Duterte was elected to the country’s highest public office, workers are still clamoring for the fulfillment of the executive’s campaign promise to end all forms of labor contractualization. Lawyer Jonas Asis,…

Cautious optimism

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/20/2016

Exports up in 3rd quarter; exec says last quarter to determine sector’s health While the rebound of the Philippine exports sector at the end of the third quarter of the year may be considered good news, a…

Get business on board

Peter Wallace 10/20/2016

There are four things President Duterte can do right now that will convince the business community of his seriousness in supporting business and ensuring it can develop unhampered. I have increasingly heard business concerns, particularly in the…

Tunnel vision

Editorial 10/16/2016

Malacañang may describe former president Fidel V. Ramos’s grim assessment of President Rodrigo Duterte’s first 100 days in office as “fatherly advice,” but it doesn’t reduce the sting of the elder statesman’s words that the country “is…

CV firms regularize 600 contractual workers — Dole-7

Dominic D. Yasay 10/10/2016

AT LEAST 600 contractual employees in different industries in the Central Visayas are now regular employees after their employers heeded the Labor Department’s call to rectify the employment status of contractual employees and end the practice of…

‘Duterte promise to stop endo being watered down, compromised’

10/05/2016

The National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC)-Formal Labor and Migrant Workers Sector on Tuesday expressed disappointment over the government’s “sudden backpedaling” on President Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign promise to stop the unfair practice of labor contractualization in the country, which…

Biz heads back calls to blacklist erring service providers

Victor Anthony V. Silva 09/19/2016

CEBU’S business leaders welcomed the government’s request for the private sector to blacklist service providers that would not comply with the government’s drive to stop the abusive practices of labor contractualization and the end of contract (endo)…

DOLE gears up for start of ‘stop endo’ campaign

Victor Anthony V. Silva 08/23/2016

With the consultations on labor contractualization completed, the Labor Department will soon start assessing business establishments as part of its implementation of the “Stop Endo” campaign. “The central office (DOLE) has already finished its three consultations in…

Some business leaders open to dropping ‘endo’

Jhunnex Napallacan 04/27/2016

Some business leaders in Cebu are open to the move to end labor contractualization, a scheme that hires temporary workers for less than six months without benefits. Donato Busa, president of the Mandaue Chamber of Commerce and…

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